| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John D. Skrentny. The Minority Rights Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 473. $35.00.

In this timely study of the minority rights revolution in America, sociologist John D. Skrentny asks why some groups were swept up in the revolution and others were not. Ranging from the 1940s through the 1990s, this book focuses most intently on the period from 1965 to 1975. Skrentny describes the revolution as a top-down movement that encompassed the development and enactment of federal legislation, presidential executive orders, bureaucratic rulings, and court decisions. His revolutionaries include Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, as well as elected and unelected officials. In a nuanced and carefully crafted argument, he first explains the 1940s roots of civil rights legislation. Subsequent chapters examine the expansion of minority rights to include affirmative action in employment and education, bilingual education, minority capitalism, and Title IX.

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