{"product_id":"the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america","title":"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e 10 Best Books of 2017\u003cbr\u003e Longlisted for the National Book Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ede facto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e incontrovertibly makes clear that it was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ede jure\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as \"brilliant\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ede jure\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Jane Jacobs established in her classic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, it was the deeply flawed urban planning of the 1950s that created many of the impoverished neighborhoods we know. Now, Rothstein expands our understanding of this history, showing how government policies led to the creation of officially segregated public housing and the demolition of previously integrated neighborhoods. While urban areas rapidly deteriorated, the great American suburbanization of the post–World War II years was spurred on by federal subsidies for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e 13 illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548242284829,"sku":"9781631492853","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781631492853.jpg?v=1761676682","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}