LEADER 04646nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910829139303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-60473-031-5 010 $a9786612622366 010 $a1-282-62236-6 010 $a1-4175-0930-9 035 $a(CKB)111090425051378 035 $a(OCoLC)55516767 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10157861 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000171960 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11922781 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000171960 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10151879 035 $a(PQKB)10740557 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL544068 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10157861 035 $a(OCoLC)614929059 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC544068 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090425051378 100 $a20001127d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA history of affirmative action, 1619-2000 /$fPhilip F. Rubio 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (342 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-57806-355-8 311 $a1-57806-354-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-316) and index. 327 $aCover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 "No Rights Which the White Man is Bound to Respect" -- Chapter 2 "The Special Favorite of the Laws" -- Chapter 3 Black Nadir, White Labor -- Chapter 4 "We Want Something That Is? Affirmative" -- Chapter 5 "The Evil That Fha Did?." -- Chapter 6 "It Was Something That Was Hard to Describe" -- Chapter 7 "And The Last Shall Be First" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aWhat is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today?. The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the recent past or current events. To understand the current debate over affirmative action, we must grapple with all of America's racial history, from colonial times, through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights era, to the present day. Philip Rubio argues that misunderstanding the history of affirmative action is the principal reason that most white people have difficulty in seeing their historical and current privilege. He combines African American, labor, and social history with thirty years of personal experience as a blue-collar worker, labor and community activist, jazz musician, and writer to examine the roots of this debate. He maintains that we are not asking the right question. The real issue, he argues, is not whether African Americans should receive compensatory treatment to correct past and present discrimination, but, rather, why whites should continue to receive preferences based on skin color. He argues that America was conceived and continues to reshape itself not on a system of meritorious achievement or equal opportunity but on a system of white preferences and quotas that are defended both actively and passively by white people. Tracing the development of the old legal initiative known as "affirmative action" (based on the principle of equity in English common law), he shows how affirmative action today has become transformed in American folklore and popular culture into something akin to the "Black Power" slogan of the late 1960s. Rather than a new and radical program, he shows that affirmative action is only the most recent challenge to the system of white privilege brought about by a long tradition of black 330 8 $aprotest. Affirmative action is not simply legislated public policy or voluntary corporate policy. Instead, as Rubio points out, it is a social history that represents a tug-of-war within working-class America over whether there should exist a property value in whiteness. In presenting this history, Rubio is firm in the belief that, after the facts have spoken, readers not only will marvel that these programs are not even tougher but also will understand why. Philip F. Rubio is a Mellon Fellow studying history at Duke University. 606 $aAffirmative action programs$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aAffirmative action programs$xHistory. 676 $a331.13/3/0973 700 $aRubio$b Philip F$01650141 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829139303321 996 $aA history of affirmative action, 1619-2000$93999344 997 $aUNINA