Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting

Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting covers fifty years of redistricting in California, tracing the interaction between race and partisanship and directly tying California’s successes and failures to the wider issue of redistricting in the United States.

Olivier Richomme

Chapter 1: "One Person, One Vote": How Minorities Benefitted from the End of Malapportionment Chapter 2: Gridlock over one (Latino) seat in 1971 Chapter 3: The Battle for the Latino vote and the Burton Plan of 1981 Chapter 4:Race and Redistricting in LA County: Garza v. County of Los Angeles Chapter 5: Strategic Gridlock of 1991: Republicans Bet on the Judiciary Chapter 6: The status quo gerrymander of 2001: MALDEF sues the Democrats Chapter 7: The California Civil Rights Act of 2001: Latinos end at-large districts Chapter 8: Tenth Time is a Charm: The California Redistricting Commission (CRC) Chapter 9: Conjoined Polarization in California: how the correlation between race and partisanship changed redistricting