![]() ![]() Reading The Color of Law reminded me of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. Reaching back to the first wave of the Great Migration in the 1920s, Rothstein thoroughly explains how in most cases, the government led the charge in creating segregated communities even in locations where none had previously existed and citizens had no desire for these restrictive zoning patterns. ![]() ![]() It disputes the widely promoted idea that individual racism and racist beliefs were the sole cause of housing segregation and the resulting discrimination that followed. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein charts the history of how local, state, and federal government policies and programs segregated cities across America. ![]()
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