A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000

by Philip F. Rubio

Overview

A readable history that puts the current debates in historical context

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578063550
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	06/01/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip F. Rubio is a Mellon Fellow studying history at Duke University.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Chapter 1	"No Rights Which the White Man Is Bound to Respect" Bonded Labor, White Preferences and Quotas, and American Citizenship Debates, 1619-1861	1
Chapter 2	"The Special Favorite of the Laws" Civil War, Reconstruction, and America's First "Affirmative Action Programs," 1861-77	33
Chapter 3	Black Nadir, White Labor: Segregation, Immigration, and How the Polish Became "White" in America, 1877-1933	57
Chapter 4	"We Want Something That Is ... Affirmative" Black Labor Confronts the New (White) Deal, 1933-45	90
Chapter 5	"The Evil That FHA Did..." White Suburbs, "Negro Quotas," Red Scares, and Black Demands, 1945-55	114
Chapter 6	"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	135
Chapter 7	"And the Last Shall Be First" Black Reparations, White Ambivalence, and Historical Memory, 1993-2000	167
	Notes	199
	Bibliography	289
	Index	317