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

HardcoverAugust 22, 2005
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ISBN-13: 9780393052138 ISBN-10: 0393052133
Binding
Hardcover
Published
August 22, 2005
Weight
1.3 lbs

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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.