Ira Katznelson
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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2005
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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
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2013
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The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government
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7 editions
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1975
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City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States
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1981
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Political Science: State of the Discipline
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2002
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Marxism and the City
7 editions
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1992
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Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
9 editions
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2003
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Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik
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1996
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Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development
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2002
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Schooling For All
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1969
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“You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders as you please. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others,” and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus is it not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.”
― When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
― When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
“When Affirmative Action Was White is one result of this endeavor. It reveals how policy decisions dealing with welfare, work, and war during Jim Crow’s last hurrah in the 1930s and 1940s excluded, or differentially treated, the vast majority of African Americans. It also traces how inequality, in fact, increased at the insistence of southern representatives in Congress, while their other congressional colleagues were complicit. As a result of the legislation they passed, blacks became even more significantly disadvantaged when a modern American middle class was fashioned during and after the Second World War. Public policy, including affirmative action, has insufficiently taken this troubling legacy into account.”
― When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
― When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
“political life came to be dominated by a pattern of interest-group politics that the era’s political scientists came to call “pluralist,” a form of democracy marked more by competition among organizations and lobbyists than by a sense of the public interest.”
― Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
― Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
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