Title: The Color of Law
Description: 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: Government policy, Discrimination in housing, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Segregation, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, Discrimination & Race Relations, African Americans, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, African americans, segregation, African americans, history, United states, race relations, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2018-05-20, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, Rassismus, Wohnungspolitik, Housing & Urban Development, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, City Planning & Urban Development, antiblackness, Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century, History, Race relations, 20th Century, LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century