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Author Katznelson, Ira, author.

Title When affirmative action was white : an untold history of racial inequality in twentieth-century America / Ira Katznelson.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, 2006.
©2005.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2021827~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  331.1330973 KAT    AVAILABLE
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Description xv, 238 pages ; 21 cm
Note "A work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action"--Summary provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "Demonstrating that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal eras of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner, Ira Katznelson recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and politics in this groundbreaking work. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Subject 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.
White people -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
ISBN 9780393328516 paperback
0393328511 paperback
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