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

Release on 2017-05-02 | by Richard Rothstein

Author: Richard Rothstein
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 9781631492860
Category: Social Science
Page: 368
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The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). 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.

Language: en
Pages: 368

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

Authors: Richard Rothstein

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-02 - Publisher: Liveright Publishing

Language: en
Pages: 558

The Color of Law

Authors: Steve Babson, Dave Riddle, Dave Elsila

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases.

Language: en
Pages: 292

Under the Color of Law

Authors: Martin Henn

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-10 - Publisher: Lexington Books

Under the Color of Law constitutes a full and critical scholarly commentary to the text of five key Bush administration legal memoranda formative of U.S. counterterrorism policy from 2001 to 2009. This volume is dedicated to the idea that these documents are worthy of being read and critically examined in

Language: en
Pages: 400

Under the Color of Law

Authors: Michael McGarrity

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-07-01 - Publisher: Penguin

Newly-installed Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives a deadly welcome when a U.S. ambassador's ex-wife is brutally stabbed to death in her home. But before Kerney can begin to investigate, the FBI closes the case with trumped-up evidence. And the harder Kerney hunts for the truth, the more he

Language: en
Pages:

The Color of Law--A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein Conversation Starters

Authors: dailyBooks

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein Conversation Starters Segregation in America has contributed to so much social strife. Richard Rothstein makes extraordinary revelations about how this came to be and how government policies promoted the segregation that continues to this