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Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action - The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action - The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: American Intellectual Culture
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Richard Nixon is hardly remembered for his civil rights policies
but there is no denying that, more than any other president, he is
responsible for affirmative action. Noting Nixon's hostility
towards busing, his political allegiances with segregationists, and
the hostility of leading civil rights figures at the time,
historians and political scientists have avoided explaining why the
origins of modern affirmative action lie in the Nixon era. In this
enlightening and original new work, Kevin Yuill combines extensive
archival research with a careful analysis of the intellectual
climate of the era to examine not only the conditions that made
Nixon's policy decisions possible in the 1970s but also what
motivated Nixon to act in the way that he did. He argues that in
order to fully understand why Nixon embraced affirmative action,
one must fully take into account the shifting context of American
liberalism in the 1970s. In particular, Yuill contends that
although government-enforced affirmative action did not fit into
the postwar, growth-oriented liberalism, it emerged as an important
regulatory policy blueprint in an era increasingly characterized by
diminished horizons for social policy. Nixon's efforts in moving
the focus of U.S. race relations from reform to indemnifying
damages, Yuill argues, at least equals his contribution to the
origins of affirmative action through policy innovations.
Controversial and far-reaching, Richard Nixon and the Rise of
Affirmative Action brings fresh research and a much-needed
reinterpretation of a crucial yet still enigmatic period, president
and policy.
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