Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Author's Law Goverment Segregated America offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" . Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, he 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), Law Goverment Segregated America forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past. 13 illustrations
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- Paperback | 58 pages
- 152 x 229 x 4mm | 100g
- 15 Sep 2020
- Independently Published
- English
- Illustrations, unspecified
- 9798686402478
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