The color of law a forgotten history of how our government segregated america
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This “powerful and disturbing history” ( The New York Times Book Review) exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas throughout America
Widely heralded as a “masterful” (The 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). 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 areas. A ground-breaking, “virtually indispensable” (Chicago Daily Observer) study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history, The Color of Law is forcing Americans to face the obligation to remedy their unconstitutional past.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 mei 2018
Aantal pagina's: 368
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Richard Rothstein
Hoofduitgeverij: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 140 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 211 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 141 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm
Verpakking lengte: 209 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 366 g
EAN: 9781631494536