{"product_id":"book-cjnz","title":"The Color of Law","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through \u003cem\u003ede facto\u003c\/em\u003e segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, \u003cem\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/em\u003e incontrovertibly makes clear that it was \u003cem\u003ede jure\u003c\/em\u003e segregation—the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments—that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThrough extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as “brilliant” (\u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that starts in the 1920s, showing how this process of \u003cem\u003ede jure\u003c\/em\u003e segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eAs Jane Jacobs established in her classic \u003cem\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities\u003c\/em\u003e, it was the deeply flawed urban planning of the 1950s that created many of the impoverished neighborhoods we know. Now, Rothstein expands our understanding of this history, showing how government policies led to the creation of officially segregated public housing and the demolition of previously integrated neighborhoods. While urban areas rapidly deteriorated, the great American suburbanization of the post–World War II years was spurred on by federal subsidies for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. Yet recent outbursts of violence in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, and Minneapolis show us precisely how the legacy of these earlier eras contributes to persistent racial unrest. “There is no better history of this troubled journey than \u003cem\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/em\u003e” (David Oshinsky in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e), and Rothstein’s invaluable examination shows that only by relearning this history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49383107952944,"sku":"BDcjnz","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49383107985712,"sku":"ZEcjnz","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49383108018480,"sku":"ZMcjnz","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/77550-cjnz-Square.jpg?v=1735066556","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cjnz","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}