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May 2, 2017 · View Kindle Edition. One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017. Longlisted for the National Book Award. This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).
- Richard Rothstein
- $17.84
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America is a 2017 book by Richard Rothstein on the history of racial segregation in the United States.
- Richard Rothstein
- 368
- 2017
- May 2017
May 2, 2017 · Richard Rothstein. 4.45. 38,885 ratings5,189 reviews. In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, 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 ...
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“Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers an original and insightful explanation of how government policy in the United States intentionally promoted and enforced residential racial segregation. The central premise of his argument, which calls for a fundamental reexamination of American constitutional law, is that the Supreme Court has ...
A book that argues how segregation in America is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels. Rothstein shows how federal, state, and local policies have shaped the racial fracturing of America and its consequences for generations of African-Americans. He also proposes remedies to reverse or undo the injustices of segregation.
The Color of Law. A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Published by Liveright. by Richard Rothstein (Author) 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.
May 2, 2017 · Richard Rothstein. Liveright Publishing, May 2, 2017 - Social Science - 368 pages. New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection. One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing...
