When Affirmative Action Was White
An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 Months Free
£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Offer ends on 15 July 2026 at 11:59 BST.
When Affirmative Action Was White
Narrated by:
Jonathan Yen
Buy Now for £13.48
-
Narrated by:
-
Jonathan Yen
-
By:
-
Ira Katznelson
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review), Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of 20th 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 70 years of American history.”
©2005 Ira Katznelson (P)2016 Tantor
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
Critic reviews
"[An] intriguing study" ( Publishers Weekly)
No reviews yet