I really can not recommend it enough! This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). It should be required reading in all US high school American history classes and also US law schools. “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. 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. This is worthy of note in itself, because the author effectively got his point across by frustrating me. The law that most of this book documents is that which has applied to where African Americans have been allowed to live. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. It documents the many ways in which government at all levels promoted racial segregation to the detriment of African-Americans. Could everybody please read this ? Like I said, it is a deeply disturbing book. The Pharisees, in truth, made little of the true Law, but made much of their own law-keeping. Buy 2, save 50% on 1. High School Social Studies, Denver, Colorado. As a keen urbanist, I've been aware of issues like redlining, inequality in mortgage lending, "urban renewal," and replacing minority neighborhoods with highways for a long time. The Color of Law sheds light on the problems that many cities and communities face today as a result of decades of housing discrimination. Even as someone who has only surface level knowledge of mortgages and such, I was able to grasp most of the ideas, so if that’s a concern then you shouldn’t worry. 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. In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels. The Most Important Book I May Have Ever Read, Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2018. He illustrated examples of segregation through housing and systems of law again and again and again, throughout American history. The VA not only denied African Americans the mortgage subsidies to which they were entitled but frequently restricted education and training to lower-level jobs for African Americans who were qualified to acquire greater skills.”, National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2017), California Book Award for Nonfiction (Gold) (2017), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for History (2017), Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Nonfiction (2017). LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Color of Law, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. If You Haven't Figured It Out...This will explain. This book may have been very dry and repetitive in the manner of writing but it’s also insightful in its subject matter, showing the myriad ways in which the federal, state and local governments used their laws explicitly and also provided cover for private enterprises, to discriminate against Black people when it came to housing, ensuring that they would never have the generational equity which had led to the rise of the white middle class, also leading to the current state of segregated housing across most urban centers in the country. To be clear, I do not at all dispute the factual account that Rothstein provides, nor do I in anyway disagree that he has clearly documented a state-perpetrated injustice by the US government at federal, state, and local levels towards African-Americans. Who can say why? In the "Color of Law", Richard Rothstein shows that the use of discriminatory residential practices in the US, including 'racially' zoned housing areas, restrictive covenants, the creation of fear of loss of property values and at times violence have been in effect from the reconstruction period in the late 19th Century and continued into 21st Century. One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017 Longlisted for the National Book Award. 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. This is worthy of note in itself, because the author effectively got his point across by frustrating me. 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). To see what your friends thought of this book. This was a very powerful book that documents at both the big-picture and individual level how housing segregation policies were imposed across the United States. My guess would be very few, only because most never really knew about it in the first place. $27.95. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. The book was unfortunately weakest in providing a path forward or proposed policy remedy for generations of foreclosed opportunity, a challenge that it acknowledges would be extremely politically difficult to effect. Some years ago, I lived for a time in Oak Park, Illinois. Overview. 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. The book is structured as a legal argument in reaction to a series of Supreme Court decisions (e.g. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Just as I was reading about how the government segregated the Bay Area, I saw images of the torch-lit march in Charleston. He crafts a great story with characters you won't forget, and his writing, in my opinion, is superb. —Kate Jones. Most of us know that black families were often confronted with very unwelcoming neighbors, but the only reason we were ever given when we asked why was an oversimplified reference to racial prejudice. After hours about how government policies perpetuated racism, excuse me if I'm skeptical that the solution is more government. The text is compact (217 pages, followed by 20 pages of FAQs and then extensive notes and bibliography) and a little bit dense, but it is accessible even if not quite as entertaining as much of the nonfiction I read. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. In the "Color of Law", Richard Rothstein shows that the use of discriminatory residential practices in the US, including 'racially' zoned housing areas, restrictive covenants, the creation of fear of loss of property values and at times violence have been in effect from the reconstruction period in the late 19th Century and continued into 21st Century. 1973, 2007) that found that neighborhood segregation was de facto (by fact) rather than de jure (by law, i.e. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. .orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}View high quality images that let you zoom in to take a closer look. De Jure vs. De Facto Segregation. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. My Father a returning war vet, tried, again and again, to get a VA loan to get a house the only places where the houses were, the white communities where he watched white vets get their loans and move out years before. An excellent book. Please try again. I didn't know 50% of the stuff in here and I'm shocked schools don't teach more about this content. Refresh and try again. Book focuses on housing. Separation of Powers, Legal Activism, and Minority Rights. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Well, Richard Rothstein can. 1973, 2007) that found that neighborhood segregation was de facto (by fact) rather than de jure (by law, i.e. We’d love your help. Although many Americans assume that neighborhood segregation and black poverty emerged through gradual processes, sleazy local institutions, or de facto preferences, Rothstein makes clear that they are in fact the result of de jure planning at all. Some of it is within Rothstein's interpretations (mainly of the amendments) but most of the negative side of the book lies within the fact that it is an extremely difficult law term and concepts of their use "type" of read. Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. Not only did that owner catch flack but the other white neighbors were not happy with us moving in, one of whom was an officer...in the German army during the war(so an African-American vet can't move into a neighborhood that a former enemy can - just because he's white?). Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. I’ve read a lot about this topic over the years, but it hadn’t occurred to me that housing in the US could best be described as a form of Apartheid. And I am not a lawyer, although I do study lawyers' and judges' decisions in minutia word copy when they occur in real time. There are no acceptable excuses for this "forgotten history", and it is now up to our generation to find an acceptable path forward, while never downplaying the horrors of our past. 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 most striking takeaway from the book was how, perhaps in contrast to popular understanding, segregation was a national, and definitely not exclusively Southern, phenomenon, backed by federal policies. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. The evidence he cites is at every level of government - federal, state, local - and constant since Reconstruction on into the 80s and beyond. In most cases, items shipped from Amazon.com may be returned for a full refund. If you’ve read The New Jim Crow or Evicted and felt like you’ve learned a lot, this one will open your eyes even more to the history & complexity of the moment we find ourselves in, how it got this way, and how we might just be able to unravel it if we have the will. These practices have disproportionately affected African Americans, keeping their communities poor and leading to the creation of segregated neig. This is a deeply disturbing book. Dragged Off: Refusing to Give Up My Seat on the Way to the American Dream (Social I... "A powerful and disturbing history of residential segregation in America . Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We are not makers of history. Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Something went wrong. See the 17-minute animated film, Segregated by Design . An important read for anyone interested in segregation, racism, and social justice. The core argument, laid out in systematic detail, is that segregation was carried out by government officials and legitimized under the force of law (as well as threat of violence, and rules of finance), and did not (contra the conclusions of Justice John Roberts in a recent case on school desegregation) just result from individual acts or personal preferences. has been added to your Cart. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. In a scant 200ish pages, Rothstein bludgeons you with anecdote after anecdote of federal, state, and local officials or policies that disrupted working and middle class white and black Americans' attempts to li. This has been consciously constructed to ensure African Americans not only live in areas with the least opportunities, ghettoise into situations where overcrowding, crime and poverty are virtually inevitable, but also this has been a housing policy decided to create wealthy landlords. Everyone, and I mean everyone, needs to know this history (and the facts that back it up). The law that most of this book documents is that which has applied to where African. color of law n. the appearance of an act being performed based upon legal right or enforcement of statute, when in reality no such right exists. I think that if the US was any other country but the world’s sole superpower, there would be a call for international sanctions to be imposed upon it due to its treatment – historical and current – of its African American population. . . are blameless incidents for which we bear no collective responsibility. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America is a 2017 book by Richard Rothstein on the history of racial segregation in the United States. This is a very informative book about a piece of American history that many of us don’t fully understand, even if we think we do: specifically, how we arrived at a place of extensive residential segregation, and how the government was way more involved in creating it than most Americans believe. But this book still startled me with how brazen and official it all was. "Half a century ago, the truth of de jure segregation was well known, but since then we have suppressed our historical memory and soothed ourselves into believing that it all happened by accident or by misguided private prejudice. His book, “The Color of Law,” shows all the ways in which the racist government of Oak Park, and inn. Richard Rothstein's deeply researched book about segregation in America is a timely and important read if one truly wants to sound the depths of anger and despair that are at the heart of the BLM movement and the general feeling of disenfranchisement in the African-American community. The book covers most regions of the country, across the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, across party lines - and that’s what makes this jaw dropping for someone pretty ignorant about this issue like me - how systemic and essentially legal all of this was and how the white supremacist governments used all their power to relegate an entire race of people to be second class citizens. Very interesting topic, well researched but often overloaded with details and repetitive. I grew up one of the all black communities the author talked about. Most of us know that black families were often confronted. Popularized by Supreme Court majorities from the 1970s to the present, the de facto segregation myth has no been adopted by conventional opinion, liberal and conservative alike. In the "Color of Law", Richard Rothstein shows that the use of discriminatory residential practices in the US, including 'racially' zoned housing areas, restrictive covenants, the creation of fear of loss of property values and at times violence have been in effect from the reconstruction period in the late 19th Century and continued into 21st Century. while learning more than you ever thought possible, about a topic you thought you already knew a decent amount about: then you need to buy this book (and some pencils for marking up the margins). Highly recommend to everyone! Still, found it very valuable as a guide to understanding how segregation policies shaped our homes, schools, the country’s politics, economy, and urban landscape, as well as millions of African American lives. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods. If this was tedious for me to read, it must be unfathomably tedious and disheartening to experience, to say the least. Finally my parents saved their money and checked out several places (By then fair housing was the law in California but it did nothing about federal law forbidding financing), they found a white owner not only willing to sell but loaned them part of the down payment (this was in the mid 60's, 20 years after the end of WW2). T he Color of Law is a 2017 nonfiction book arguing that residential racial segregation in the United States is not an accident but a matter of government policy.. This book is a really good resource for segregation policies from after the end of slavery until present day. Read this New York Times article that dives deep into the issue of residential desegregation. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. It's an essential history of America's state sponsored history of race discrimination in housing. Oak Park has for decades been filled with rich white liberals, who live just across the street from a City of Chicago neighborhood, Austin, that is filled with poor black people. I found it imminently readable and informative and I highly recommend this book to be read in these particular times before 3 Nov 2020. Oak Park has for decades been filled with rich white liberals, who live just across the street from a City of Chicago neighborhood, Austin, that is filled with poor black people. The evidence he cites is at every level of government - federal, state, local - and constant since Reconstruction on into the 80s and beyond. Unable to add item to List. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. This succinct history puts the lie to the idea that people congregate with others of their race mostly out of preference and custom, and that the material side effects thereof (wealth, educational opportunities, etc.) Highly recommend to everyone! The book is full of FACTS and information that is out there for those who won't believe what is written in this book. (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). In this lesson, students examine the local, state and federal policies that supported racially discriminatory practices and cultivated racially segregated housing. This is an important book, but after a while, it felt very repetitive. This is an excellent book with just a few difficulties. Yet I am hopeful it can be done, if the momentum doesn't die down and people go VOTE! I’ve read a lot about this topic over the years, but it hadn’t occurred to me that housing in the US could best be described as a form of Apartheid. I’m not rating it, but I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more. This was a very powerful book that documents at both the big-picture and individual level how housing segregation policies were imposed across the United States. Lays out a compelling argument for how government action at the federal, state, and local level--and not simply the decisions of individual racists--have resulted in and perpetuated segregation in America. I found it imminently readable and informative and I highly recommend th. Yet, for some reason the citizens of Oak Park simply can’t fathom, people from Austin almost never move to Oak Park. 345 pp. Everyone in the U.S. needs to learn the history of de jure segregation; law and policy were enacted and enforced at the local, state and federal level that promoted discriminatory housing practices. If this was tedious for me to read, it must be unfathomably tedious and disheartening to experience, to say the least. Liveright Publishing. Order a copy of The Color of Law. Some of it is within Rothstein's interpretations (mainly of the amendments) but most of the negative side of the book lies within the fact that it is an extremely difficult law term and concepts of their use "type" of read. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. That's exactly why no Supreme Court judge should be evaluated for that position on one issue of. In The Color of Law, Rothstein lays out the history of de jure segregation. "Color of Law" is a fabulous book! Learn more about the program. I originally wrote a dissertation-length review of this book before opting to delete it and simply say: if you want to sing a recurring chorus of "there's no f***ing way this can be true?!" Start by marking “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Books like this show in depressing detail how insidious racism is in societ. Segregation and the Preservation of Racial Caste. are blameless incidents for which we bear no collective responsibility. The book is structured as a legal argument in reaction to a series of Supreme Court decisions (e.g. This book documents legalised crimes against humanity. It's a must read on how the United states keep has and will try to keep separating minorities from white Americans. 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). In terse prose, Richard Rothstein details the underhanded ways in which Republican and Democratic politicians alike imposed and enforced racial segregation across the U.S. throughout the … Books like this show in depressing detail how insidious racism is in society and how challenging it is to combat something that goes so deep. LOL! In a scant 200ish pages, Rothstein bludgeons you with anecdote after anecdote of federal, state, and local officials or policies that disrupted working and middle class white and black Americans' attempts to live in integrated environments, and presents devastating evidence of the wealth gap that has opened between the races in large part because of this government-designed segregation. This is an excellent book with just a few difficulties. Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (The Geor... Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City, For the People: A Story of Justice and Power. The Color of Law shows what happens when Americans lose their natural rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or in the case of African-Americans, … Misuse of power, possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because wrongdoer is clothed with authority of state is action taken under ‘color of law.’” Welcome back. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. . Does this book any certain kind of agenda? Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. Although he conducted no original research, the synthesis Rothstein provides here is commendable. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. Read more 'Color of Law' classroom stories. In The Color of Law, historian Richard Rothstein notes that every single American city is segregated on racial lines and argues that this segregation is de jure rather than de facto: it is the deliberate product of “systemic and forceful” government action, and so the government has a “constitutional as well as a moral obligation” to remedy it. Rothstein’s service is to precisely set out why this happened, how it was done, and what exactly the effects today are. Fuck the FHA (and the New Deal at large), fuck HUD, fuck the VA, fuck federal, state and local housing policies, fuck banks, fuck real estate brokers, fuck developers, fuck churches, fuck universities, fuck hospitals, fuck homeowners' associations and FUCK the police. Please try again. One of the great strengths of Rothstein’s account is the sheer weight of evidence he marshals. denotes the "mere semblance of legal right", the "pretense or appearance of" right; I really can not recommend it enough. While the road forward is far from clear, there is no better history of this troubled journey than ‘The Color of Law.’". government mandated), and therefore not the responsibility of government to fix. Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2017. 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