The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard Rothstein.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631492853
- ISBN: 1631492853
- ISBN: 9781631494536
- ISBN: 1631494538
- Physical Description: xvii, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York ; Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-320) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Summary, etc.: | "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 incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation -- the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments -- that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day."--Jacket. |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | 305.8 ROT (Text) | 34005142765485 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |