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

Author: Ira Katznelson Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393328516 0393328511

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." Similar books: Fear Itself by Ira Katznelson Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin One Nation by Ben Carson A Warning by Anonymous American Nations by Colin Woodard Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway Control by Glenn Beck Hillary's America by Dinesh D'Souza Licensed to Lie by Sidney Powell Front Row at the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl The Big Lie by Dinesh D'Souza The Smear by Sharyl Attkisson The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Fascism by Madeleine Albright Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson If You Can Keep It by Eric Metaxas White Guilt by Shelby Steele