This is what is commonly known as “ de facto segregation,” practices that were the outcome of private activity, not law or explicit public policy. To scholars and social critics, the racial segregation of our neighborhoods has long been viewed as a manifestation of unscrupulous real estate agents, unethical mortgage lenders, and exclusionary covenants working outside the law. Richard Rothstein in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates.Richard Rothstein discusses The Color of Law on Fresh Air.The Color of Law was designated one of ten finalists on the National Book Awards’ long list for the best nonfiction book of 2017. Rothstein was a panelist on an EPI webinar, July 9, 2020, discussing his book and Reconstruction 2020: Valuing Black Lives and Economic Opportunities for All. In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America-the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife-is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels.
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