Did you know that Richmond, Milpitas, and Palo Alto all had sub-divisions where it was illegal for African Americans to own a house? On this edition of Your Call, Richard Rothstein discusses The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which details how laws and policy decisions promoted the very discriminatory patterns that continue today.
Many of the Bay Area’s segregated, low income neighborhoods can be traced directly back to discriminatory housing policies either created or enforced by local, state and federal authorities. How can that same system begin to make amends for the inequities they created?
Guest:
Richard Rothstein, research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History Of How Our Government Segregated America
Web Resources:
Citylab: Breaking the Backbone of Segregation
