Ordinances prohibited African Americans from buying homes on blocks where white people were a majority and vice versa. Racial zoning (verb) a type of exclusionary zoning, racial zoning was the practice of enacting ordinances that designated separate living areas for black and white families. But the historical record demonstrates that residential segregation is “de jure,” resulting from racially-motivated and explicit public policy whose effects endure to the present. Myth of self-segregation (noun) the assertion that the residential isolation of low-income black children is now “de facto,” or the accident of economic circumstance, demographic trends, personal preference and private discrimination. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history ( Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.Affluent (adj.) having an abundance of wealth, property or other material goods prosperous rich (from )Īppropriate (verb) to set apart, authorize or legislate for some specific purpose or use (from )īlockbusting (noun) the real estate practice of buying homes from white majority homeowners below market value, based on an implied threat of home prices falling during and after minority integration of neighborhoods (adapted from )Įquity (noun) the monetary value of a property or business beyond any amounts owed on it in mortgages, claims, liens, etc. Exploding 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. Widely heralded as a “masterful” ( Washington Post) and “essential” ( Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide ( New York Times Book Review). The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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