The impact has been devastating for generations of African Americans who were denied the right to live where they wanted to live, and raise and school their children where they thought best. Rothstein has spent years documenting the evidence that government not merely ignored discriminatory practices in the residential sphere, but promoted them. In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America-the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife-is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels. Rothstein is one of ten finalists compiled by the National Book Awards. The Economic Policy Institute congratulates research associate Richard Rothstein on being a long list finalist for his nonfiction book The Color of Law.
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