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When Affirmative Action Was White
- Author
- Ira Katznelson
- Narrator
- Jonathan Yen
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 16 August 2016
- Run Time
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Ira Katznelson
- Narrator
- Jonathan Yen
- Duration
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 August 2016
- ISBN
- 9781515978442
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- History, Society and culture: general, History of the Americas, Social discrimination and equal treatment
Synopsis
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and 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. Through mechanisms designed by Southern Democrats that specifically excluded maids and farm workers, the gap between blacks and whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity. In the words of noted historian Eric Foner, "Katznelson's incisive book should change the terms of debate about affirmative action, and about the last seventy years of American history."
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