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

Name: When Affirmative Action Was White An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780393328516

ISBN-10: 0393328511

ISBN-13: 9780393328516

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ira Katznelson

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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…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Marxism and the Cityand the award-winning Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik.He has served as president of the Social Science History Association and of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association.



Preface: Du Bois's Paradox



Doctor of Laws



Welfare in Black and White



Rules for Work



Divisions in War



White Veterans Only



Johnson's Ambitions, Powell's Principles: Thoughts on Renewing Affirmative Action



"To Fulfill These Rights"


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index