Examples of disenfranchisement in the following topics:
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- Like African American communities in southern states, Asian American communities have faced a long history of voter discrimination and disenfranchisement in the US .
- Asian American communities have a long history of both disenfranchisement and political participation in the US.
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- Although it is important to note that poor white residents were also disenfranchised by many of these provisions.
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- The Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African-Americans.
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- Characteristics of this system, also known as "Jim Crow," included racial segregation, voter disenfranchisement, economic exploitation, and organized violence against the black community.
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- When President Woodrow Wilson announced that the war was being fought for democracy, supporters of women's suffrage protested that disenfranchising women prevented the United States from being a true democracy.
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- In "the middle" are the optimistic and upwardly mobile "Upbeats", the discouraged and mistrusting "Disaffecteds," and the disenfranchised "Bystanders. " The right compromises the highly pro-business "Enterprisers," the highly religious "Social Conservatives" (also known as the Christian right), and the "Pro-Government Conservatives" who are largely conservative on social issues but support government intervention to better their economic disposition.
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- Voter fatigue and voter apathy should be distinguished from what arises when voters are not allowed or unable to vote, or when disenfranchisement occurs.
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- In many cases, critiques of proposals to make English the country's official language accuse bill sponsors of attempting to disenfranchise Latinos — that is, of trying to reduce their political and economic power.