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Ira katznelson is a professor of political science and history at columbia university, president of the social science research council and the author of when affirmative action was white. Until the dawn of affirmative action in 1960s, such luminaries as du bois and kilson were the exceptions to the rule at our historically white colleges and universities. Ira katznelson, the ruggles professor of political science and history at columbia university, enters this fray with a provocative new book, when affirmative action was white, which seeks to provide a broader historical justification for continuing affirmative action programs. The almost exclusively whitelar geted nature of this extensive federal. Racial wealth and homeownership data nine charts about wealth inequality in america, urban institute, oct. A searching study of institutional inequality, much of it wrought, then as now, by the south.
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