作者：RichardRothstein
出版社：Liveright
副标题：AForgottenHistoryofHowOurGovernmentSegregatedAmerica
出版年：2017-5-2
页数：368
定价：USD27.95
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9781631492853
内容简介
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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 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.
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.
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 Minneapolis 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” (Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), as Rothstein’s invaluable examination shows that only by relearning this history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past.
作者简介
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Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California, where he is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California–Berkeley.
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看了这本书，我感觉说是政府创造了种族隔离也不为过。
非常informative最后一章还有防杠精指南。只是这种写历史书的narrative一点也不贴近大众，应该加入更多文学艺术处理让更多的人愿意读这样的书啊
整本书主旨明确就是要反驳“居住区种族隔离是个人行为导致的”（de jure vs. de facto）这个论调，用史实指出政府不可推卸的责任。激进的种族隔离导致的历史遗留问题只能用激进的反隔离政策来弥补。
持久的贫困向来不是因为群体trait造成的，然而很多人却轻易对整个群体下结论，无论中美
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