Format:
Book
Author:
Rothstein, Richard, author.
Title:
The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard Rothstein.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2018.
Description:
xvii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary:
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 whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, "virtually indispensable" study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.
Subjects:
Segregation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in housing -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-320) and index.
ISBN:
1631494538
9781631494536
Other Number:
1005102364
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
423959
Call Number:
305.8009 ROT 2018
Course Reserves:
0
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