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Attempting to cause a person to do something by telling that person that such action is required by law, when it is not required by law, may be a felony. “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.“A powerful and disturbing history of residential segregation in America . 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.The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. h�b```f``�d`e``db@ !�(G�B�2��v�W�� e�v��} ��G�p�3V0��Y^֙��V��we�noA�6��S��q�F+Z��M��@�tЪh��(,Q�u m\ӎ� �X��#�͑�� l�6(i@� WA ��|�� h-�bq��100��fRg�d��x�q'�Y�Z��Lg"��3��z��p�!�Q��R\@��؉�C�,��` �g�� The Color of Law was designated one of ten finalists on the National Book Awards’ long list for the best nonfiction book of 2017. %PDF-1.5 %�� . While the road forward is far from clear, there is no better history of this troubled journey than ‘The Color of Law.’”“Masterful…The Rothstein book gathers meticulous research showing how governments at all levels long employed racially discriminatory policies to deny blacks the opportunity to live in neighborhoods with jobs, good schools and upward mobility.”“Essential…Rothstein persuasively debunks many contemporary myths about racial discrimination….Only when Americans learn a common―and accurate―history of our nation’s racial divisions, he contends, will we then be able to consider steps to fulfill our legal and moral obligations. 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. 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. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein Brian Knudsen Brian Knudsen, bknudsen@prrac. . h�bbd```b``.�A �q�d��?�L�`�,r�nD�b��A$W+�d��Bz ҋD�IF�� Y��ɳH��t�'�iN�g`Z� � �,_ . “The Color of Law is one of those rare books that will be discussed and debated for many decades. 140 0 obj <>stream Former college football star Scott Fenney has worked his way to the top of … 121 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<670EF1185703D2DEB0163A87DEB0BF8D><9C579B928A212545B01954B5184E7520>]/Index[99 42]/Info 98 0 R/Length 109/Prev 408816/Root 100 0 R/Size 141/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream

For the rest of us, still trying to work past 40 years of misinformation, there might not be a better place to start than Rothstein’s book.”“Rothstein’s work should make everyone, all across the political spectrum, reconsider what it is we allow those in power to do in the name of ‘social harmony’ and ‘progress’ with more skepticism…The Color of Law shows what happens when Americans lose their natural rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or in the case of African-Americans, when there are those still waiting to receive them in full.”“Virtually indispensable… I can only implore anyone interested in understanding the depth of the problem to read this necessary book.”“Original and insightful…The central premise of [Rothstein’s] argument…is that the Supreme Court has failed for decades to understand the extent to which residential racial segregation in our nation is not the result of private decisions by private individuals, but is the direct product of unconstitutional government action. endstream endobj 100 0 obj <> endobj 101 0 obj <> endobj 102 0 obj <>stream Download The Color of Law ebook. |�V��$BH�S��Wx��W�R�w^ �p��0�g:�q��-XK��\�?2B��r�Z�+�K�" ��e��,��K��"��8/Jz�̒�#Td!�/�j��}��$6��y�,n,��mS�?�͙Fsͱ�|�^��?��j�8F�2uIVzHS5�s��U��V1j\+c#E��q%�֏l�LO74�j�t/D��ݨ��d2��x��e��z��x .