SOC 134 Study Guide - White Trash, Corporate Welfare, Federal Housing Administration
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Would get a lot of support from white voters. Partisanship and representation: partisanship and racial polarization (cid:149) (cid:149) American politics promote raciail domination by: very few minorities have been elected to the senate, voting rights act did not open the gates of political power. Whites have maintained virtual monopoly over seats of high political influence: superficial vs. substantive representation, many prominent nonwhite politicians refuse to lobby policies that promote racial justice or equality. Condoleezza rice wasn"t there to dismantle racial domination conviction. Only cares about diversity in skin color, not in political: substantive representation genuine political representation marked by a correspondence between the goals of nonwhite representatives and those of nonwhite citizens. Thurgood marshall first aa to serve on supreme court, very concerned with liberties of nonwhite americans. Need both skin color and political conviction: gerrymandering, processes by which elected politicians redraw and manipulate the borders of political districts to secure political advantage.
