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When Affirm Act Was White Pa

ISBN: 9780393328516 | 0393328511
Edition: 00
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 8/17/2006

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 Paradoxix
Doctor of Laws
1(24)
Welfare in Black and White
25(28)
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Rules for Work
53(27)
Divisions in War
80(33)
White Veterans Only
113(29)
Johnson's Ambitions, Powell's Principles: Thoughts on Renewing Affirmative Action
142(31)
Appendix: ``To Fulfill These Rights''173(9)
Notes182(43)
Acknowledgments225(4)
Index229
Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University


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