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When affirmative action was white book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Katznelson supports this startling claim ingeniously, showing, for instance, that while the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act was a great boon for factory workers, it did nothing for maids and agricultural laborers-employment sectors dominated by blacks at the time-at the behest of Southern politicians. And instead of seeing it as a leg up for minorities, Katznelson argues that the prehistory of affirmative action was supported by Southern Democrats who were actually devoted to preserving a strict racial hierarchy, and that the resulting legislation was explicitly designed for the majority: its policies made certain, he argues, that whites received the full benefit of rising prosperity while blacks were deliberately left out. Rather than seeing affirmative action developing out of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Katznelson ( Desolation and Enlightenment) finds its origins in the New Deal policies of the 1930s and 1940s. ![]()
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