{"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":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’s 10 Best Books of the Year\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinalist •\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBook Prize (History)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWidely heralded as a “masterful” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) and “essential” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChicago Daily Observer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past. 13 illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor Name: Richard Rothstein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Liveright; Reprint edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublish Date: May 1, 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBinding Type: Paperback Pages: 368\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight: 12.4 ounces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize: 5.5 x 1 x 8.4 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN Number 13: 978-1631494536\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN Number 10: 9781631494536\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- City Planning \u0026amp; 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