Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America both familiar and new

both familiar and new

I find him an irresistible writer

While driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac

and readers of all ages will find plenty of sound information

In the heart of Greenwich Village

Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America both familiar and newWidely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law 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,