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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 segregationthat 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 segregationthe laws and...
2) Hate thy neighbor: move-in violence and the persistence of racial segregation in American housing
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New York University Press
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[2013]
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English
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Examines violence and intimidation by white residents directed at minorities who move into white neighborhoods, forcing minorities back into separate neighborhoods and maintaining housing segregation.
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Brookings Institution Press
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[2022]
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English
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"Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems. Financially well-off Americans can afford comfortable, stable homes in desirable communities. Millions of other Americans cannot. And this divide deepens other inequalities....
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"Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a ... chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread access to mortgages across the United States after World War II cemented homeownership as fundamental to conceptions of citizenship and belonging. African Americans had long faced racist obstacles to homeownership,...
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Henry Holt and Company
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2023.
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English
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"In this searing and deeply researched examination of the promises and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler aims to uncover where the problem lies and to shed light on what's being done to move forward-inhousing, in education, and in the promise of shared community. In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights became a national model for housing integration. And beginning in the seventies, it was known as a...
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Bryant Park Press
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[2019]
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English
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In the exciting new book, Treason & Betrayal: The Rise and Fall of Individual-1 [April 2019, Bryant Park Press] constitutional law and counterintelligence expert Kenneth Foard McCallion provides a detailed analysis as to how and why Trump is now a co-opted agent for Russia who presents a clear and present danger to the U.S. as long as he is permitted to occupy the White House. "Treason & Betrayal makes a strong case for when and how a sitting president...
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Dutton
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c2013
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English
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The New York Times reporter who broke the story on the Stuyvesant Town sale documents the losses of investor billions by real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, explores how the events surrounding the infamous deal reflected the ongoing real estate crisis.
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Metropolitan Books
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2009
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English
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Part family story and part urban history, this work is a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago, and in cities across the nation. The "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation's worst ghettos and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.'s first campaign beyond the South. In this book, the author identifies the true causes of the...
10) Discrimination in metropolitan housing markets: phase 2, Asians and Pacific Islanders : final report
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Urban Institute, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center
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[2003]
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English
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
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[2023]
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English
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"The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it. In his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black and white Americans live separately by choice, providing “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to the reinforced neighborhood segregation”...
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