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

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN-10
0393328511
ISBN-13
9780393328516
Category
History
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2006-08-17
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Ira Katznelson

Description

A study on the lesser-known origins of affirmative action argues that key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were purposefully discriminatory, revealing how Southern democrats widened the gap between black and white Americans through specific restrictions in social security, the GI bill, and landmark labor laws. Reprint.

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