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When Affirmative Action Was White

Paperback • 2006 • English

When Affirmative Action Was White

By Ira Katznelson

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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 t...Show more

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9780393328516

Publisher

WW Norton Co

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

When Affirmative Action Was White

Format

Paperback

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