Voter-Identification Requirements and the Learning Curve

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (01) ◽  
pp. 117-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Vercellotti ◽  
David Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Curve ◽  
Racial Minorities ◽  
Very Old ◽  
Voter Identification ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Voter Fraud ◽  
Disproportionate Burden

Debates over whether to require voters to provide proof of identity at the polls, and just how that can be accomplished, are taking place in legislative chambers and courtrooms across the nation. At the heart of these debates is the balancing act of ballot security versus access to voting. Opponents of voter-identification requirements argue that they place a disproportionate burden on ethnic and racial minorities, the poor, the less educated, the very young, and the very old. Supporters of identification requirements argue the standards are no higher than those required for boarding a plane or cashing a check, and the requirements are needed to prevent voter fraud.

The gendered production of infrastructure

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Siemiatycki ◽  
Theresa Enright ◽  
Mariana Valverde
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Racial Minorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Employment Practices ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Infrastructure Investments ◽  
Negative Impacts

Over the years, many studies have documented how the negative impacts of infrastructure investments are disproportionately borne by women, the poor and racial minorities. In this paper, we focus on the ways that unequal gender dynamics are a key feature of the production of infrastructure, a topic that has received far less attention. In particular, we show how masculinity is deeply embedded in the organizational structures, employment practices, symbolic narratives and systems of power that create the vast arrays of infrastructure globally. We discuss the implications of a masculinist network of infrastructure development, and point to directions for future research.

scholarly journals Disproportionate burden of coronavirus disease 2019 among racial minorities and those in congregate settings among a large cohort of people with HIV

AIDS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 1781-1787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Meyerowitz ◽  
Arthur Y. Kim ◽  
Kevin L. Ard ◽  
Nesli Basgoz ◽  
Jacqueline T. Chu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Cohort ◽  
Racial Minorities ◽  
Disproportionate Burden

Between Nationality and Class

1997 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Aronowitz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Educational Opportunity ◽  
White Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Minorities ◽  
Open Society ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Democratic Norms

In this article, Stanley Aronowitz argues that "American" ideology contains two elements. First, the United States is believed to confer equality of opportunity on each citizen. Second, unlike other advanced industrial nations, the United States is considered an "open society" that allows and promotes social mobility. In this paradigm, racial minorities and women have the same chances to escape the ranks of the working poor as White men. Aronowitz uses a class-based analysis nested within ethnicity to expose the fallacy of this ideology. Since higher education is most often pointed to as a source of social mobility, Aronowitz focuses his argument on the meritocratic norms that are replacing democratic norms within higher education, and on the devolution of educational opportunity for the poor, working class, and racial minorities.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
James Lindley Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Racial Minorities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Full Account ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
The Common ◽  
Moral Superiority ◽  
Law Making

This introductory chapter provides an overview of democracy. Democracy draws much of its political and philosophical support from its claim to be the form of government in which citizens rule equally. It has long been associated, however imperfectly and incompletely, with political equality of citizens. Indeed, the greatest and most profound advances of democracy have been rejections of political inequalities: the demand that the “common born,” the propertyless, and the poor; racial minorities; and women were among those with whom citizens were obliged to share in rule equally. Democracy's claim to moral superiority as a regime draws from its claim to be the political reflection and expression of this equality among citizens. This book then offers a full account of political equality: an account that can help guide people's choices between electoral and law-making institutions and practices.

After the Voting Rights Act

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas A. Powe
Keyword(s):  
Attorney General ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Voting Rights Act ◽  
Voter Identification ◽  
Shelby County ◽  
The One ◽  
Voter Fraud ◽  
Voter Id ◽  
The U.S

This chapter discusses the legal battles over the issue on voting rights in Texas. The Voting Rights Act, with its preclearance requirements for the South, was adopted in 1965 and reauthorized in 1970, 1975, 1982, and 2006. A few days after the 2006 reauthorization, the municipal utility district (MUD), created in Austin, Texas, in the 1980s, sued the U.S. attorney general, claiming that it should be allowed the advantage of the “bailout” (from preclearance) provisions of the Act. Edward Blum was the man behind the lawsuit. The chapter examines the MUD case and the one that followed it, Shelby County v. Holder. It also considers the efforts of Republicans to prevent voter fraud in the state through voter identification, resulting in SB 14, or voter ID bill, in the Texas Senate.

scholarly journals Jesuits from Asia-Pacific in the Time of Laudato si’: Reconciliation with Creation

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-618
Author(s):  
Pedro Walpole S.J.
Keyword(s):  
Learning Curve ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
The Poor ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Ecological Objectives ◽  
Social Engagements

Jesuit Conference Asia-Pacific established a “Reconciliation with Creation,” a comprehensive program that aims to enable greater environmental awareness and participation in caring for all forms of life. As part of this program, Jesuit pastoral ministries with the poor and beyond are integrating social and ecological objectives. Meanwhile, Jesuit schools are embarking upon a new learning curve with many new social engagements and technologies that may enact greater ecological integration and accountability. Likewise, as part of this initiative, Jesuit communities themselves are learning to audit their consumption and waste. Climatic events, as those that have devastated many different communities that this conference represents, are currently the focus of many Jesuit institutions as they seek to develop protocol beyond relief to disaster risk reduction (drr). Accordingly, in order to address this urgent challenge, sustainability science needs to adapt so that it becomes problem-focused, and a critical element in this endeavor is the capacity of Jesuit institutes to network and collaborate with others. Grounded in gratitude and engaging with hope, “Reconciliation with Creation” is essentially an invitation to act that concurrently seeks to gradually deepen the experience of the sacred.

Life, Death, and Resurrections

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessi Streib ◽  
SaunJuhi Verma ◽  
Whitney Welsh ◽  
Linda M. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Racial Minorities ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
The Poor ◽  
History Of

This article examines the culture of poverty thesis, focusing on its many lives, deaths, and reincarnations. It first considers the intellectual history of the culture of poverty thesis before discussing how the argument has been interspersed throughout U.S. history and applied to various groups. It then considers the argument’s scholarly reproduction, noting how it is underlain by a binary whereby segments of the poor, racial minorities, and immigrants are positioned as having a deviant, morally suspect culture that undermines their potential upward mobility, whereas white middle- and upper-class Americans are positioned as having a normal, morally upstanding culture that secures their class position. The article also describes four routine scholarly practices that engender a specter of support for the culture of poverty thesis. Finally, it argues that the culture of poverty should either be put to rest or allowed to live based on its own merits, and suggests ways to end its unintentional resurrection.

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