The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Book Name: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Author: Richard Rothstein
Publisher: Liveright; Reprint edition
ISBN-10: 9781631494536,978-1631494536
Year: 2018
Pages: 368 pages
Language: English
File size: 5 MB
File format: PDF

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Pdf Book Description:

We stated they are”de facto segregated,” they result from personal clinics, not from government or law policy. De facto segregation, we inform ourselves, has different causes. When African Americans moved to a neighborhood such as Ferguson, several racially prejudiced white households chose to depart, then as the amount of black households grew, the area deteriorated, and”white flight” followed. Real estate brokers steered whites from black areas, and blacks from ones that are white. African Americans have not Normally acquired the educations that could permit them to earn adequate incomes to reside in white sands, and, consequently, many remain concentrated in urban areas. In any case, black households like to live with each other.

This has some fact, however, it remains a tiny portion of the fact, submerged with a far more significant one: before the final quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of national, state, and local authorities characterized where whites and African Americans ought to live. The coverage was systematic and strong which its consequences endure to the current moment. With no government’s significant imposition of racial segregation, another causes personal bias, white flight, property steering, lender redlining, income gaps, and self-segregation still would’ve existed with much less chance for expression. Segregation by deliberate government actions isn’t de facto. Instead, it’s exactly what judges predict de jure: segregation by law enforcement and public policy.