Wisely we start our look at this history with WWII and the necessary changes that came about with the shipbuilding industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most segregation does fall into the category of open and explicit government-sponsored segregation. Rothstein makes a very compelling argument that shows our government created and fueled this segregation, and that this history has left many black families behind financially and educationally. Lately there has been more research and study into the history of our laws, and they are fascinating. Other assumptions follow that neighborhoods have traditionally been segregated because of personal or family choices only. Also there is a prevailing belief, I’ve found, that racial segregation was limited to the southern part of our country. Many of these have been buried within other events or written off as “necessary” or “coincidental”. Our American history is full of examples of racial segregation. A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America But this book is a fascinating look at our racial history in terms of residential segregation. At first glance reading a sociology thesis is not necessarily desirable for those of us who are not otherwise studying in college. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, a thesis written and researched by Professor Richard Rothstein of University of California Berkeley, along with many other professional credentials.
Publisher: Liveright Reprint edition (May 1, 2018).A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history ( Chicago Daily Observer ), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.
Exploding 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 violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. Widely 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).
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