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

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

New York Times Bestseller â€¢ Notable Book of the Year â€¢ Editors' Choice Selection

One of Bill Gatesâ€™ â€œAmazing Booksâ€ of the Year

One of Publishers Weeklyâ€™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 â€¢ California Book Award (Nonfiction)

Finalist â€¢ Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)

Finalist â€¢ Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize

This â€œpowerful and disturbing historyâ€ exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).

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Widely heralded as a â€œmasterfulâ€ (Washington Post) and â€œessentialâ€ (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothsteinâ€™s The Color of Law offers â€œthe most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregationâ€ (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, â€œvirtually indispensableâ€ 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Liveright
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-05-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Liveright
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-05-01
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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