The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (z-lib.org).epub

p. 35, 2 In 1987, more than a decade after the Supreme Court case,
President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork to fill a Supreme Court
vacancy. A fierce controversy ensued in the Senate, and Bork
failed to win confirmation.
p. 36, 1 PRRAC 2005; Daniel & Beshara online; Banks v. Housing
Authority of City and County of San Francisco 1953; Berger 1998;
Mohl 2001, 345. A Home Box Office miniseries, Show Me a Hero
—based on the 1993 book by Lisa Belkin, Show Me a Hero: A Tale
of Murder, Suicide, Race and Redemption—describes the resistance
of Yonkers to the federal appeals court decision and the city’s
eventual half-hearted compliance.
p. 36, 2 Abrams 1951, 327; Hirsch 2005, 59–60; Nixon 1973. But Nixon’s
was an exaggerated stereotype. Segregated public housing
perpetuates racial isolation, with all the attendant problems that
characterize low-income minority neighborhoods where
disadvantage accumulates. But from the perspective of families in
desperate need of housing, segregated housing is preferable to
none. The long waiting lists for public housing in most cities are
testament to the continued desirability and popularity of public
housing for families whose incomes are too low to purchase or rent
housing in the private market. The choice should not be, as it was
for Congress in 1949, between segregated high-rise public housing
and no housing. The choice should be between segregated public
housing and integrated (by race and income) public housing in
integrated neighborhoods.
p. 37, 2 Johnson 1993, 105.
CHAPTER 3:
Racial Zoning
p. 39, 1 Logan et al. 2015, 26 (fig. 4); Logan and Stults 2011. Residential
racial segregation is difficult to define and thus to measure
precisely. The most common demographic description is the “index
of dissimilarity” that calculates the share of African Americans
living in a neighborhood with other groups, compared to their
share of their metropolitan area. This index, however, shows an
increase in “integration” when poor Hispanic immigrants move
into a predominantly black neighborhood. For understanding the de
jure segregation of African Americans, the dissimilarity index is