Color of Law

Color of LawExploding 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

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and political cartoons--and reveals the contributions of acclaimed cartoonists and illustrators

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Founding Mothers traces the stories of heroic

Yet there are as many ghosts in the neighborhood as there are beneath the dome

Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant

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Jefferson was a staunch proponent of limited government

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