TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rothstein,Richard
TI  - The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America 
SN  - 9781631492853
AV  - 002 E 185.61 R847c 2017
U1  - 305.800973/0904 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Segregation
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Segregación
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Discrimination in housing
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Discriminación en la vivienda
KW  - Discriminación racial
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-320), appendix, and index; 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
N2  - "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." ?William Julius Wilson -- de factoThrough extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" ( -- The Death and Life of Great American CitiesThe Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. Yet recent outbursts of violence in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, and Minneapolis show us precisely how the legacy of these earlier eras contributes to persistent racial unrest. “The American landscape will never look the same to readers of this important book” (Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), as Rothstein?s invaluable examination shows that only by relearning this history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past
ER  -