Essays about: "Disenfranchisement"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 essays containing the word Disenfranchisement.

  1. 6. Equality for all Americans?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hedwig Lindgren; [2016]
    Keywords : Discrimination; Constitutionality; Disenfranchisement; Equal; African American; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Supreme Court declared §4(b) of the Voting Right Act (1965) unconstitutional in the case of Shelby County v Holder 570 U.S. in 2013. This is a recent decision regarding disenfranchisement towards African Americans which ends up not protecting the civil rights of all American citizens. READ MORE

  3. 7. What Would Gunnar Myrdal Say? Sweden, the Right to Health and Ethnic and Racial Minority Migrants

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Shannon Alexander; [2009]
    Keywords : International Human Rights Law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In the 1940s, Swedish Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal noted a disconnect between the American creed (liberty and justice for all, equality) and the status of African-Americans (marginalization, disenfranchisement, segregation). Decades later, a similar disconnect is currently reflected in Myrdal's Sweden. READ MORE