Description: MacLean shows how African-American and Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all levels is a requisite of full citizenship. This book chronicles the cultural and political advances that have irrevocably changed our nation over the past 50 years.
Brief description: Nancy MacLean is William H. Chafe Professor of History at Duke University.
Review Quotes: With a sweep rare in history books, Nancy MacLean shows how affirmative action and the civil rights movement transformed the experience of every group in American society during the last half century. A bold and dramatic contribution.--William H. Chafe, Professor of History, Duke University, and past-president of the Organization of American Historians