The legal (de)construction of geography: Race and political community in Supreme Court redistricting decisions

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-73

  Forest, Benjamin ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Gerrymandering; Hegemony; Legal geography; Political representation; Racial identity; Redistricting

Indexed keywords

HEGEMONY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; LEGAL SYSTEM; RACE;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; RENO; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 10944267002     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1464936042000181317     Document Type: Article

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