The Color of Law (WB)
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WB001830
ISBN: 9798822692039
Grade Level: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Genre: History
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Title: The Color of Law- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America--(WB)
Author: Richard Rothstein
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9798822692039
SKU: WB001830
Release Date: 45627
Genre: History -Social Issues
Grade Level: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Language : English
Description : 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 actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes 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. Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north. As Jane Jacobs established in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 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 (more...)
Author: Richard Rothstein
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9798822692039
SKU: WB001830
Release Date: 45627
Genre: History -Social Issues
Grade Level: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Language : English
Description : 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 actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes 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. Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north. As Jane Jacobs established in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 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 (more...)
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