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

摘要: A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action. When Affirmative Action Was White demonstrates all key programs passed during New Deal and Fair era 1930s 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. This was no accident. With United States still an legal segregation, powerful southern wing Democratic Party provided framework for Social Security, GI Bill, landmark labor laws helped create foundations modern middle class. Through mechanisms specifically excluded maids farmworkers through kept administration local hands, gap between blacks whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity. The publication this disturbing promises to national debate on meaning action responsibility government.