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No one should pretend to rationally discuss the wedge issue of affirmative action without reading this important and apparently little-known book. I always thought that my success (limited as it may be) was entirely the result of my own merits. I never realized that even I, from a lower middle class background, had a leg up on my black brethren because of previous government policies that favored whites either directly or in practice. Then I read this book. You should too.
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
elmont, January 27, 2010
No one should pretend to rationally discuss the wedge issue of affirmative action without reading this important and apparently little-known book. I always thought that my success (limited as it may be) was entirely the result of my own merits. I never realized that even I, from a lower middle class background, had a leg up on my black brethren because of previous government policies that favored whites either directly or in practice. Then I read this book. You should too.(1 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)