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A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000

by Philip F. Rubio. 327 pgs.

Contributors:

   Philip F. Rubio

Publisher:

   University Press of Mississippi

Place of Publication:

  Jackson, MS  

Publication Year:

  2001

Subjects:

Affirmative Action Programs--United States--History

	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

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