Reddit reviews The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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For my graduate program in City & Regional Planning, I try to bring my passion for social justice and I recently started an interesting read called The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. It speaks to how law cases and policies have led to enforcing segregation and how without realizing it, we have been treating symptoms (as "de facto segregation") without also treating the illness. I wanted to share this excerpt:

> There were many specific government actions that prevented African Americans and whites from living among one another, and I categorize them as "unconstitutional". In doing so, I reject the widespread view that an action is not unconstitutional until the Supreme Court says so.
Few Americans think that racial segregation in school was constitutional before 1954, when the Supreme Court prohibited it. Rather, segregation was always unconstitutional, although a misguided Supreme Court majority mistakenly failed to recognize this. -Richard Rothstein (Author)

If you find that viewpoint interesting, I think you would enjoy examining our constitutional amendments (and other policies) along with the author.

Survival Math, The Color of Law, Killing The Black Body, and Stamped From The Beginning are all really good ones as well. Not sure which avenue of "black books" you're trying to go down specifically so I just threw out some general titles. Let me know if you're looking for something unlike what I listed and I'd be happy to give more!

If you would like to read one book that may expand some of your thinking on this topic, consider reading Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Edit: Forgot to mention this book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

A few off the top of my head, not including current outright discrimination:

• Children: What is the building maintenance like at the school you go to?
  
• Children: When you go to school, have you eaten that day? (Google Black Panthers breakfast)
  
• Children: How much of your attention for homework is diverted to avoiding crime?
  
• Children: Do you have to worry about where dinner is going to come from when you should be doing homework?
  
• Children: Do you have a quiet place to do homework, with adequate supplies?
  
• Children: If your homework requires internet access, can you do it at home? If not, how far away is the library, and what are the transportation options?
  
• Children: If you need help with your homework, how many of the subjects have your parents taken?
  
• Late teen / college: How much do you need to work, during times you should be doing homework?
  
• College: How much support can your parents give to pay your way through college?
  
• Early career: Can you afford to take an unpaid internship?
  
• Any job: What is the job market like within a few miles of you? If jobs are farther away, what are the public transit options? ( https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/us/detroit-man-walks-21-miles-for-daily-commute/index.html)
  
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  Getting into race just a little, black people and black neighborhoods were explicitly excluded from FHA loans until 1968, and other mortgage paths generally followed suit. The post-WW2 economic expansion and the creation of the suburbs largely ended by 1972, so black people were excluded from the biggest wealth expansion the country has ever seen. This locked in poor neighborhoods, with schools mostly funded by property taxes.
  
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  A few exceptional people can make it out, but a lot of people have a lot harder time getting started than I did, growing up in an upper middle class neighborhood.

Redlining was only banned on a federal in 1968 for housing. So no, it wasn't a part of the Jim Crow lawset. But just because the fair-housing act was passed on a federal level, it didn't mean that local officials just created new laws that didn't explicitly mention race but were used for the same purpose anyways.

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Other shit included: The fact that the PWA was allowed to create and maintain segregated neighborhoods. "Ubran renewal" projects aimed at dehousing black neighborhoods. Neighborhood-based School segregation (ensuring that schools are built in such locations that blacks and whites are separated by distance/neighborhoods, this by the way is still a thing that's happening today). Federally protected whites-only Unions into the 1960s, that when finally abolished, still protected existing seniority system so blacks still got fucked. I mean there are literally books written about this subject.

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And that's only dealing with America's whitewashing of racial inequality. And given the comments here and the downvotes, it's obvious that it's working. And this is coming from a pasty white immigrant from eastern Europe.