Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems – it corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and African American schoolchildren. We’ve taken no serious steps to desegregate neighborhoods, however, because we are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is de facto—the result of private discrimination or personal choices that do not violate constitutional rights. The Color of Law demonstrates, however, that residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy in the mid-twentieth century that openly subsidized whites-only suburbanization in which African Americans were prohibited from participating. Only after learning the history of this policy can we be prepared to undertake the national conversation necessary to remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape.
Richard was a great speaker!
Cinnaire
- Sep 19 2023
Richard gave a terrific talk! We had students and faculty from all around the college in attendance as well as the president of the Trenton NAACP and other community leaders from Trenton nonprofits. This was a highlight of the semester with our college president, our dean, and our Dawley Center steering committee all delighted to see Richard lead our college community in such an important conversation.
The College of New Jersey
- Apr 20 2022
Thanks to everyone for helping to create a great event!
Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership
- Jun 22 2021
National CASA/GAL Association for Children - Jan 04 2021
Cuyahoga Community College - Nov 23 2020
By Richard Rothstein. Mr. Rothstein is the author of “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.” Jan. 20, 2020.
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