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

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaOne of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017Longlisted for the National Book Award This powerful and disturbing history exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that Americas cities came to be racially divided

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1935552341

or anyone committed to social justice and racial equality

to how the great-grandson of Texas slaves reinvented himself as a Muslim leader in Oakland and built the violent cult that the young gunman eventually joined

The author further notes that the diminishing slave population near the end of the eighteenth century triggered the development of a comprehensive plan for the breeding of slaves in the Danish West Indian colony

In addition to these questions

shapes and sizes

the book successfully chronicles a relatively unexplored dimension of slavery in the Danish west Indies

she moves to the end of the earth—the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne

Freddie Gray

and in encounters with the police—and explores what "doing the right thing" means in a corrupt system

of mice and

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0451230256