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Race And Representation After Miller V. Johnson, Richard Briffault

Faculty Scholarship

This Article considers the Supreme Court's two approaches to race and representation: the constrained proportionality of the vote-dilution cases and the strict scrutiny of racially motivated districting. Part I traces the development of these two doctrines, examines their conceptual underpinnings, and considers some of the questions the Court will have to answer as it elaborates its new approach to the use of race in the design of electoral systems.

Part II explores the tension between the Court's two approaches. The concern with racial motivation proceeds from an underlying normative assumption about the place of race in politics that is profoundly …

Integrating The "Underclass": Confronting America's Enduring Apartheid, Olatunde C.A. Johnson

Faculty Scholarship

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton's American Apartheid argues that housing integration has inappropriately disappeared from the national agenda and is critical to remedying the problems of the so-called "underclass." Reviewer Olati Johnson praises the authors' refusal to dichotomize race and class and the roles both play in creating and maintaining housing segregation. However, she argues, Massey and Denton fail to examine critically either the concept of the underclass or the integration ideology they espouse. Specifically, she contends, the authors fail to confront the limits of integration strategies in providing affordable housing or combating the problem of tokenism. Massey and Denton …