Dr. Anica gives her three takeaways from the incredible book “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein!
Many of the poor communities we know today are the result of deeply flawed urban planning in the 1950s. By demonstrating how government actions contributed to the construction of officially segregated public housing and the razing of formerly mixed areas, Rothstein deepens our understanding of this history in this book. While urban areas quickly worsened, federal grants for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans spurred the enormous American suburbanization of the post-World War II years. Rothstein reveals how law enforcement officials brutally upheld these standards by encouraging black families to resist in white areas.