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When Affirmative Action Was White:
An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Ira Katznelson
ISBN: 0393052133
Format: Hardcover, 256pp
Pub. Date: August 2005
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Price: $25.95
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
"In a revisionist work that fundamentally recasts our understanding of
twentieth-century American history, Ira Katznelson conclusively
demonstrates that the economic policies enacted during the Great Depression
and the ensuing decades not only excluded African Americans from attaining
social parity but actually widened the gap between white and black living
standards. Katznelson forces us to both reexamine historical truths and
reevaluate existing social programs by tracing the origins of the twentieth
century's most glaring inequality from the early days of the New Deal, when
President Roosevelt was forced to make a Faustian bargain with the racist
southern faction of the Democratic party." With a broad cast of characters,
including W.E.B. Du Bois, Harry Truman, and Lewis Powell, among many
others, When Affirmative Action Was White takes a fresh look at a neglected
history of race and public policy. It is an examination of why (and how)
America must shift its policies radically if it is ever to be a nation with
genuinely equal prospects for all its citizens.
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