TY - JOUR
AU - Leonard, Kevin Allen
AB - 1186 Reviews of Books vested heavily in carrying out a non-discrimination pol- glacial pace of integration, even in sectors under fair icy it had adopted in 1941, and in the 1950s, a number employment mandates such as the federal government, of companies networked with black colleges, undertook and the persistence of occupational segmentation, it is new recruiting practices, and implemented other “af- hard to believe that “in the end integration was as much firmative actions” to improve the hiring of African the result of persuasion and negotiation as coercion and Americans (p. 174). These corporate programs, Delton pressure” (p. 193). Moreover, while certain businesses notes, helped normalize the integration of the work- may have promoted fair employment and affirmative place. Indeed, by the 1980s, corporations often opposed action initiatives, their rationale for doing so does not conservative efforts to roll back or eliminate affirmative seem entirely irrelevant to the debate over their role in action. For her evidence, Delton draws upon the cor- normalizing these policies. As Delton explains, corpo- porate archives of Du Pont, International Harvester, rate officials acted out of a combination of self-inter- Lukens Steel, and Control Data Corporation, among ested and altruistic motives. If some 
TI - Robert Bauman. Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. (Race and Culture in the American West, number 3.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2008. Pp. xiii, 189. $34.95
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr.115.4.1186
DA - 2010-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/robert-bauman-race-and-the-war-on-poverty-from-watts-to-east-l-a-race-0WSkI0e2U9
SP - 1186
EP - 1187
VL - 115
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -