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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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An essential history of America focusing on the overt urban policies that fortified widespread segregation. This is an exacting and damning indictment of the American government that is essential reading for all.

One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017

Longlisted for the National Book Award

This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).

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, throu...