The Color of Law

书名：The Color of LawAForgottenHistoryofHowOurGovernmentSegregatedAmerica
作者：RichardRothstein
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ISBN：9781631492853
出版社：Liveright
出版时间：2017-5-2
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：368
豆瓣评分： 9.0

书籍简介：

In 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 de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day. Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north. Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north. The 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. “The American landscape will never look the same to readers of this important book” (Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), as 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.

作者简介：

Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California, where he is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California–Berkeley.

书友短评：

@ yupian 快速阅读tip：前言，后记和FAQ囊括全书精华。作者带着进步的初衷从多个角度去说明Segregation是de jure 而非de facto，值得肯定。行文稍显枯燥，个别地方的论证有些草率和牵强。最让我失望甚至震惊的出现在FAQ里。多处回答依然透漏着潜意识的种族主义。例如建议设定一些奖励机制推动黑人搬去白人社区，因为这是政府在鼓励大家“除掉恶习”例如戒烟时的惯例。What a great analogy … @ 冬天 非常翔实了

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