The Color of Law – Audiobook Online

• The Color of Law

• A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
• By: Richard Rothstein
• Narrated by: Adam Grupper

In this groundbreaking modern American urban history, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, busts the myth that American cities are divided by race through stratification. de facto racism – that is, through personal prejudice, income disparities or the actions of private entities such as banks and real estate agencies. Instead, The Color of Law makes it clear that it is discrimination under the law — the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments — that actually drives the Discrimination continues to this day.

Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has hailed as “wonderful” (The Atlantic), Rothstein arrives at the chronicle of nothing more than an untold story that begins with the 1920s, showing how the process of apartheid began under the law partition, when millions of African Americans moved in a great historic migration from south to north.

As Jane Jacobs establishes in her classic The Death and Life of America’s Great 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 formal segregated public housing and the demolition of residential complexes. previously integrated. While urban areas deteriorated rapidly, America’s great suburbanization in the years following World War II was fueled by federal subsidies to builders on the condition that they were not. sold homes to African-Americans. Finally, Rothstein shows how ruthlessly police and prosecutors maintain these standards by advocating violent resistance to Black families in Negro neighborhoods.

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse ingrained residential patterns. However, recent outbreaks of violence in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson and Minneapolis show us exactly how the legacy of earlier eras contributed to persistent racial unrest. Rothstein’s invaluable test shows that only by relearning this history can we finally pave the way for the nation to redress its unconstitutional past.

Must read!! One of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read, can’t stop listening. There were moments that almost brought me to tears and I was finished with so many questions in my head. This should be read to dispel the myth of de facto segregation.

Audiobookss audio player

Hi everyone, please be noticed that the Audio player doesn't play next track on IOS version < 15.6. If you are facing that issue, just upgrade your IOS to version 15.6 to fix it. Enjoy!