The book is held together by one overarching theme. Having written extensively on urban politics and liberalism, his new book, When Affirmative Action Was White (2005), jumps into the fray by analyzing the issue of affirmative action. One can speculate that Ira Katznelson has been listening to some version of this exchange since he first entered academia in 1969. Call it the difference between red states and blue states, the suburbs and the city, or white individuals and black individuals many Americans simply disagree over how the United States should remember and interpret the social revolutions of the 1960s and early 1970s. The exchange seems so familiar because it cuts across so many of the fault lines that define contemporary public discourse. Civil rights was about more than the right to vote!" It solved America's race problem." I smiled gently and waited for the standard rebuttal, "The United States still has a race problem! Just look at our inner cities and crime among black youth and poverty among minorities. It started the way it normally does, "The movement gave blacks equality I don't see how you can approach it as anything other than a victory. I was presiding over a classroom of about twenty undergraduate students, trying desperately to moderate a discussion on the legacies of the civil rights movement.
It can occasionally be a difficult issue to finesse.
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