{"product_id":"the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america-spiral-bound","title":"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America [Spiral-Bound]","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection\u003cbr\u003e One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year\u003cbr\u003e One of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e’s 10 Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e An NPR Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)\u003cbr\u003e Finalist • \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Book Prize (History)\u003cbr\u003e Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Widely heralded as a “masterful” (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) and “essential” (\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/i\u003e offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (\u003ci\u003eChicago Daily Observer\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/i\u003e forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past. 13 illustrations \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bitig Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50516881244237,"sku":"SFY-0138","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/4704\/6477\/files\/SFY-0138.jpg?v=1790087049","url":"https:\/\/bitigstore.com\/it\/products\/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america-spiral-bound","provider":"Bitig Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}