When Affirm Act Was White Pa

by Katznelson,Ira

• ISBN13: 9780393328516
• ISBN10: 0393328511
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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."

Author Biography

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University

Table of Contents

Preface: Du Bois's Paradox	ix
Doctor of Laws	1	(24)
Welfare in Black and White	25	(28)
Rules for Work	53	(27)
Divisions in War	80	(33)
White Veterans Only	113	(29)
Johnson's Ambitions, Powell's Principles: Thoughts on Renewing Affirmative Action	142	(31)
Appendix: ``To Fulfill These Rights''	173	(9)
Notes	182	(43)
Acknowledgments	225	(4)
Index	229