02216cam a2200373 i 4500 431423414 TxAuBib 20170517120000.0 180425t20182017||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017004962 9781631494536 1631494538 (OCoLC)1032305326 TxAuBib rda Rothstein, Richard. The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard Rothstein. London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. ℗2017. xvii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes reading group guide. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-320) 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. "Richard Rothstein 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 it 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."--Jacket. 20170517. Segregation United States History 20th century. African Americans Segregation History 20th century. Discrimination in housing Government policy United States History 20th century. United States Race relations History 20th century. Nonfiction. T3L