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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

by Ira Katznelson

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ISBN13: 9780393328516
ISBN10: 0393328511
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A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action. In this "penetrating new analysis" ("New York Times Book Review") Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through mechanisms designed by Southern Democrats that specifically excluded maids and farm workers, the gap between blacks and whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity. In the words of noted historian Eric Foner, "Katznelson's incisive book should change the terms of debate about affirmative action, and about the last seventy years of American history."

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ISBN:
9780393328516
Subtitle:
An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Author:
Katznelson, Ira
Author:
Katznelson, IRA
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
United States - 20th Century
Subject:
Discrimination & Racism
Subject:
Race relations
Subject:
African Americans - Civil rights - History -
Subject:
United States Race relations.
Publication Date:
August 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
238
Dimensions:
8.22x5.50x.69 in. .54 lbs.

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