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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. 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.
Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how 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.
Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how 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 Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. 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 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.
著者簡介
Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California, where he is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California–Berkeley.
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诚如另外一部分读者所言，此书资料翔实，立论有据，加之严肃的题材，读起来枯燥无趣，略微伤脑。但读着读着竟浮现出小时候常玩的《大富翁》游戏画面，美国白人们为了阻碍非裔美国人通过住房进行民族融合的政策手段与游戏里为了打败对手而使用的卡牌道具不谋而合。只不过虚拟游...
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用戶評價
花瞭一個晚上和早上讀瞭書的前一半，最喜歡這句: we say we seek diversity, not racial integration。 讀後反思是：Is racial integration really a good option?
评分翔實的數據解釋美國黑人與白人之間資産（主要是房産）的巨大差距，一戰二戰前後，黑人大規模離開南方進入北方工廠尋找就業機會，與此同時，許多針對黑人的歧視政策也開始産生，譬如政府支持的房貸不貸給黑人，街區劃分時禁止齣租齣售給本片區的少數人群，造成城市裏種族隔離越來越嚴重。二戰之後，許多白人買到瞭房産，而黑人沒有，幾十年以後，即使這樣的政策本身被取消，房價飛漲，當年失去買房機會的人也很難迎頭趕上。如果沒有時間讀整本書，聽這個fresh air訪談也就可以瞭: https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
评分'income differences are only a superficial way to inderstand why we remain segregated. ' Cycle of segregation 的另一個版本
评分#非常厲害的曆史研究作品，梳理客觀而尖銳，就連展望未來的最後一節的論述都能保持這種剋製而真實的書寫態度，實在讓人敬佩。如果要瞭解種族隔離和當前美國的種族現狀，這本書應該算是“必須讀”。
评分立足於Supreme Court Jurisprudence (Bradley v. Milliken, Parents Involved in Cmty. Sch. v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1)，反轉其所接受的錯誤的事實前提，用大量事實反駁瞭residential segregation單純由文化偏見與私人行為造成的迷思，而說明美國各級的政府行為如何助長乃至造就瞭隔離的現狀，從而主張政府具有彌補過錯的憲法責任；對居住環境的種族隔離及總體意義上的收入歧視之間的經濟學分析直截有力，雖然還有值得深入探討與補充之處。最後感嘆一下各種五花八門的手段簡直就是一部當代美帝對付低端人口史。
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