When Affirm Act Was White Pa
ISBN: 9780393328516 | 0393328511
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 8/17/2006
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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 de... MORE
| Preface: Du Bois's Paradox | ix | ||||
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| Appendix: ``To Fulfill These Rights'' | 173 | (9) | |||
| Notes | 182 | (43) | |||
| Acknowledgments | 225 | (4) | |||
| Index | 229 |
Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University
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