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A history of affirmative action, 1619-2000

Author: Philip F Rubio
Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Rubio, Philip F.
History of affirmative action, 1619-2000.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2001
(OCoLC)742576970
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Philip F Rubio
ISBN: 157806354X 9781578063543 1578063558 9781578063550
OCLC Number: 45463334
Description: xvi, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: "No rights which the white man is bound to respect" : bonded labor, white preferences and quotas, and American citizenship debates, 1619-1861 --
"The special favorite of the laws" : Civil War, Reconstruction, and America's first "affirmative action programs," 1861-77 --
Black nadir, white labor : segregation, immigration, and how the Polish became "white" in America, 1877-1933 --
"We want something that is ... affirmative" : black labor confronts the New (white) Deal, 1933-1945 --
"The evil that FHA did ..." : white suburbs, "negro quotas," red scares, and black demands, 1945-55 --
"It was something that was hard to describe" : black movement, white reaction, and affirmative action from the civil rights movement to Reagan-Bush, 1955-93 --
"And the last shall be first" : black reparations, white ambivalence, and historical memory, 1993-2000.
Responsibility: Philip F. Rubio.

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