The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America /
"Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation -- that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrove...
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New York ; London :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
2018.
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| Item Description: | Includes reading group guide. |
Table of Contents:
- If San Francisco, then everywhere?
- Public housing, Black ghettos
- Racial zoning
- "Own your own home"
- Private agreements, government enforcement
- White flight
- IRS support and compliant regulators
- Local tactics
- State-sanctioned violence
- Suppressed incomes
- Looking forward, looking back
- Considering fixes
- Epilogue.