Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Name: Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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ISBN: 9781631494536

ISBN-10: 1631494538

ISBN-13: 9781631494536

Edition: 2017

Authors: Richard Rothstein

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Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 5/1/2018
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.18" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute.