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BOOK
Title The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard Rothstein
Imprint New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
©2017

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  305.8 engelska    DUE 24-04-22  ---
Edition First edition
Descript xvii, 345 pages illustrations, maps 25 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation. He makes it clear that it was the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day. In the 1920s 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 great American suburbanization of the post-World War II years was spurred by federal subsidies for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse embedded residential patterns
Subject 1900-talet
Segregation -- historia
Afro-amerikaner -- historia
Bostadssegregation -- historia
Segregation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in housing -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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Classmark 305.8009730904
ISBN/ISSN 9781631492853 inb
1631492853 inb
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