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

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UPC:
9780393052138
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
2005-08-22
Author:
Ira Katznelson
Language:
english
Edition:
1St Edition
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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. 10,000 first printing.