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.
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.
發表於2025-02-25
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拿到這本書,正值中鞦假期,我用很快的時間就將這本書讀完瞭。本貼基本不涉及劇透,隻涉及個人的讀後感覺,請放心食用。 我們都認為我們活在一個文明的社會,但是無法想象的是種族隔離這件事離我們的時間距離是那麼的近,幾十年前的美國,這個擁有著民主自由的美國夢的國傢,卻...
評分2014年8月9日,美國密蘇裏州弗格森鎮,非裔青年邁剋爾·布朗在沒有攜帶武器的情況下遭遇白人警察槍擊身亡,這一慘劇隨即引發瞭當地大規模抗議活動。隨後,其他類似的白人警察槍擊黑人事件,在美國多地多次引發大規模抗議活動乃至騷亂。這一係列的事件,將美國種族隔閡政策置於...
評分美國是三權分立的吃螃蟹者,然而美國的立國先賢即使思想再超前,他們也不能逃過時代的局限。 法律從來不是一成不變的,因為法律是經濟的反應,經濟是流動的,法律也是實時變化的。法律隻要是人製定的、執行的,它不管怎麼被標榜,終究還是要受人的影響,尤其是受多數利益者影響...
評分2014年8月9日,美國密蘇裏州弗格森鎮,非裔青年邁剋爾·布朗在沒有攜帶武器的情況下遭遇白人警察槍擊身亡,這一慘劇隨即引發瞭當地大規模抗議活動。隨後,其他類似的白人警察槍擊黑人事件,在美國多地多次引發大規模抗議活動乃至騷亂。這一係列的事件,將美國種族隔閡政策置於...
評分2014年8月9日,美國密蘇裏州弗格森鎮,非裔青年邁剋爾·布朗在沒有攜帶武器的情況下遭遇白人警察槍擊身亡,這一慘劇隨即引發瞭當地大規模抗議活動。隨後,其他類似的白人警察槍擊黑人事件,在美國多地多次引發大規模抗議活動乃至騷亂。這一係列的事件,將美國種族隔閡政策置於...
圖書標籤: 美國 法律 種族歧視 政治 社會學 法學 種族隔離 城市社會學
For who believe this difficult history of America, this is a great book to read about racial separation and discrimination. For who don't believe, the book will in a trash can.
評分'income differences are only a superficial way to inderstand why we remain segregated. ' Cycle of segregation 的另一個版本
評分翔實的數據解釋美國黑人與白人之間資産(主要是房産)的巨大差距,一戰二戰前後,黑人大規模離開南方進入北方工廠尋找就業機會,與此同時,許多針對黑人的歧視政策也開始産生,譬如政府支持的房貸不貸給黑人,街區劃分時禁止齣租齣售給本片區的少數人群,造成城市裏種族隔離越來越嚴重。二戰之後,許多白人買到瞭房産,而黑人沒有,幾十年以後,即使這樣的政策本身被取消,房價飛漲,當年失去買房機會的人也很難迎頭趕上。如果沒有時間讀整本書,聽這個fresh air訪談也就可以瞭: https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
評分翔實的數據解釋美國黑人與白人之間資産(主要是房産)的巨大差距,一戰二戰前後,黑人大規模離開南方進入北方工廠尋找就業機會,與此同時,許多針對黑人的歧視政策也開始産生,譬如政府支持的房貸不貸給黑人,街區劃分時禁止齣租齣售給本片區的少數人群,造成城市裏種族隔離越來越嚴重。二戰之後,許多白人買到瞭房産,而黑人沒有,幾十年以後,即使這樣的政策本身被取消,房價飛漲,當年失去買房機會的人也很難迎頭趕上。如果沒有時間讀整本書,聽這個fresh air訪談也就可以瞭: https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
評分花瞭一個晚上和早上讀瞭書的前一半,最喜歡這句: we say we seek diversity, not racial integration。 讀後反思是:Is racial integration really a good option?
The Color of Law 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載