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Indlæser... The Color of Law (2017)af Richard Rothstein
   Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Eye opening and disheartening. (  ) Grace.Van.Moer | Jan 4, 2021 |  Rothstein is giving me everything I am looking for in a nonfiction read. The Color of Law is a well researched, clearly written, and artfully organized account of discriminatory house practices in the US, and how they contributed to racialized segregation and economic disparity, still felt today. Rothstein is not arguing that these housing practices were the sole cause of segregation and disparity; rather, the government's actions were strong contributing factors that violated the constitutional rights of Black Americans. Such a profound violation of these rights demands a remedy. After presenting his arguments, Rothstein provides practical recommendations, taking into consideration the political and economic forces that make some idyllic policies and initiatives impossible at this time. In no way does he suggest that righting history will be easy, but he persuades his readers that it is necessary. Some sections feel a bit dry, but that may be part and parcel with the detail he communicates—overall, a worthwhile read. (  ) eljay12 | Dec 13, 2020 | This book details how neighborhoods were designed to keep POC out. I documents builders, home owners, city leaders, HUD, and the police discriminated against Blacks in America. The laws in place were ignored in favor of keeping neighborhoods with mostly white people and concentrating Blacks into small communities. ( ) caanderson | Nov 29, 2020 | Just by reading the preface I learned thing I did not know. This is one of the most interesting books I have ever read. There is so much information about a period in American history that shaped many of the inequities in housing and wealth. ( ) foof2you | Nov 27, 2020 | In no way a fun or easy read, but he makes his case. Clear, compelling, persuasive. His examples, while not exactly vivid and well-illustrated as in more narrative-focused history, are well-chosen. An important book. ( ) erikasolberg770 | Nov 4, 2020 |
 But since American schools don’t teach the true history of systemic racial segregation, Rothstein asks, “Is it any wonder [students] come to believe that African-Americans are only segregated because they don’t want to marry or because they prefer to live only among themselves?” 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. 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.
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, 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. 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. 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. 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. Yet recent outbursts of violence in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, and Milwaukee show us precisely how the legacy of these earlier eras contributes to persistent racial unrest. "The American landscape will never look the same to readers of this important book," comments Sherrilyn A. Ifill. Indeed, Rothstein's invaluable examination demonstrates that only by relearning American urban history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past. -- Inside jacket flaps. No library descriptions found. |
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