<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Rothstein, Richard,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Rothstein, Richard,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/lawrence/rss/search?query=Rothstein%2C%20Richard%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:35:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Color of Law]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 it 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.As Jane Jacobs established in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, it was the deeply flawed urban planning of the 1950s that created many of the impoverished neighborhoods we know. Now, Rothstein expands our understanding of this history, showing how government policies led to the creation of officially segregated public housing and the demolition of previously integrated neighborhoods. While urban areas rapidly deteriorated, the great American suburbanization of the post-World War II years was spurred on by federal subsidies for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods. 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 Milwaukee 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," comments Sherrilyn A. Ifill. Indeed, Rothstein's invaluable examination demonstrates that only by relearning American urban history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past. -- Inside jacket flaps.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C267901</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C267901</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rothstein, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/267901119</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781631492853/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Color of Law]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection  One of Bill Gates' "Amazing Books" of the Year  One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of the Year  Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction  An NPR Best Book of the Year  Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction  Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)  Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize     This "powerful and disturbing history" exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).        Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, "virtually indispensable" study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C402769</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C402769</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rothstein, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/402769119</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781631492860/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Color of Law]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. As Jane Jacobs established in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, it was the deeply flawed urban planning of the 1950s that created many of the impoverished neighborhoods we know. Now, Rothstein expands our understanding of this history, showing how government policies led to the creation of officially segregated public housing and the demolition of previously integrated neighborhoods. While urban areas rapidly deteriorated, the great American suburbanization of the post-World War II years was spurred on by federal subsidies for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods. 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.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C402766</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C402766</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rothstein, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/402766119</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501976872/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just Action]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C497260</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C497260</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rothstein, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/497260119</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324093244/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>