Reimagining Democratic Inclusion: Asian Americans and the Voting Rights Act
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چکیده
Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 359 I. Voting Rights Act, Section 2: Minority Voting Dilution and Protection of Communities of Common Interest ............................................................ 362 II. Democratic Inclusion and Demographic Diversity ............................................. 376 A. Advancing Understanding of Modern Diversity ..................................... 376 B. Adapting the Black-White Paradigm to Modern Diversity .................... 379 III. Asian Americans as a Negative “Case”: Democratic Exclusion Under the VRA and the Gingles Prongs for Assessing Minority Vote Dilution ...... 390 IV. Building the Positive Case: Asian American Inclusion and Tests of Minority Vote Dilution Beyond Gingles ..................................................... 397 A. Defining Asian American Political Interests ............................................ 398 B. Measuring Shared Interests and Identities ................................................ 405 C. Reforming Legal Tests to Reflect Redefined Interests ........................... 414 V. Re-Imagining Democratic Inclusion ....................................................................... 419 A. Summary of Argument ................................................................................ 419 B. Justifications for Interest-Based Measures of CCI .................................. 423 C. Possible Objections ...................................................................................... 425 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 430
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