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What 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

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Author

Philip F. Rubio

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781417509300

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Business, History

Updated

2026-03-24