When affirmative action was white : an untold history of racial inequality in twentieth-century America / Ira Katznelson.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 238 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393052133
- 9780393052138
- 0393328511
- 9780393328516
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Political and social views
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
- Affirmative action programs -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Whites -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Race relations
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.
When Affirmative Action Was White 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. This was no accident. With the United States still in an era of legal segregation, the powerful southern wing of the Democratic Party provided the framework for Social Security, the GI Bill, and landmark labor laws that helped create the foundations of the modern middle class. Through mechanisms that specifically excluded maids and farmworkers and through laws that kept administration in local hands, the gap between blacks and whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity. The publication of this deeply disturbing work promises to create a national debate on the meaning of affirmative action and the responsibility of government.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"A work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action"--Provided by publisher.