{"product_id":"the","title":"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWidely heralded as a “masterful” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and “essential” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExploding 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Daily Observer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past. 13 illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43385977077847,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1649\/1493\/files\/81yEcn1gMpL._SL1200.jpg?v=1778805996","url":"https:\/\/www.threadspun.co\/products\/the","provider":"Thread Spun","version":"1.0","type":"link"}