This article examines the effects that strict voter identification laws has over voting-eligible Americans and concludes against popular opinion that these laws do not affect voter turnout. Due to Georgia’s strict ID laws, the author finds that while turnout among black in Georgia fluctuates, turnout since the implementation of the strict voter ID laws is generally higher than black turnout was immediately before strict voter ID requirements were enforced. This source is valuable in tackling some preconceived notions the readers may have. It still remains a hot topic today that strict voting laws would bring a systematic bias against the poor and minorities, but the information gathered in this article shows, at least in Georgia, that
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This article aims to target the effects of voter-ID requirements on voting behavior. The article highlights that early evidence showed that stricter voter-ID laws negatively affected, but only marginally, turnout rate, but it does not paint a complete picture. The author claims that for each of the articles that claim that the strict voter-ID laws have a small negative impact on turnout, finds that there is usually another study that finds that the voter-ID laws may have a small increase in turnout. The author concludes that there are simply not enough evidence to show that strict voter-ID laws has any effect in either way in regards to voter turnout, which it is commonly believed to have a bias against Black …show more content…
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots has well-studied effects on the development of Black American presence in American politics, but the author looks further and studies the effects in Asian American political presence as well. The author notes that the LA Riots were the decisive break of the contemporary bipolar black/white paradigm of race in America due to its oversimplification of the minority races into one group despite demographic changes in American society. The author identifies six dimensions of the black/white paradigm, which he later uses to redefine the paradigm. Using the his definition of the paradigm, he shows how the black/white paradigm cannot be applied to the Asian-American civil rights agenda. Although this article gets really technical and verbose, I believe that it does provide some valuable insight into the development of Asian American presence in
This article aims to target the effects of voter-ID requirements on voting behavior. The article highlights that early evidence showed that stricter voter-ID laws negatively affected, but only marginally, turnout rate, but it does not paint a complete picture. The author claims that for each of the articles that claim that the strict voter-ID laws have a small negative impact on turnout, finds that there is usually another study that finds that the voter-ID laws may have a small increase in turnout. The author concludes that there are simply not enough evidence to show that strict voter-ID laws has any effect in either way in regards to voter turnout, which it is commonly believed to have a bias against Black …show more content…
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots has well-studied effects on the development of Black American presence in American politics, but the author looks further and studies the effects in Asian American political presence as well. The author notes that the LA Riots were the decisive break of the contemporary bipolar black/white paradigm of race in America due to its oversimplification of the minority races into one group despite demographic changes in American society. The author identifies six dimensions of the black/white paradigm, which he later uses to redefine the paradigm. Using the his definition of the paradigm, he shows how the black/white paradigm cannot be applied to the Asian-American civil rights agenda. Although this article gets really technical and verbose, I believe that it does provide some valuable insight into the development of Asian American presence in