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

p. 194 Bernestine Williams moved to Plano with a higher-value Section 8
voucher, the result of the 1985 civil rights lawsuit Walker v. HUD
against the Dallas Housing Authority and HUD. She raised her two
children in Plano. College is typical for students who attend
schools in integrated communities like Plano, and both of her
children are now in college. This is the type of outcome for which
the housing mobility programs aim.
p. 195, 2 Levine et al. 2014; Levine and Stark 2015; American
Psychological Association 2015, 27; Wells, Fox, and Cobo 2016.
One set of experiments gave groups of financial experts
information about the underlying characteristics of simulated
stocks. Racially and ethnically diverse groups estimated values for
the stocks that were closer to their true values than racially and
ethnically homogenous groups. In a brief filed with the Supreme
Court in a recent affirmative action case, the American
Psychological Association presented summaries of research
demonstrating that in discussion groups, “the presence of minority
individuals stimulates an increase in the complexity with which
students—especially members of the majority—approach a given
issue.”
p. 196, 4 CDC 2016; Edozien 2004. The nationwide asthma rate for African
American children is 13.7 percent, for white children 7.6 percent.
The New York City health commissioner reported in 2004 that
while asthma rates overall were declining, “[t]he asthma
hospitalization rate among children under 5 years of age living in
low-income neighborhoods is four times that of children living in
high-income neighborhoods.” In that year, asthma was the leading
cause of absenteeism in New York City schools.
p. 199, 1 Danzer et al. 2012, 288, 492, 506.
p. 199, 4 Lapsansky-Werner et al. 2016, 304, 431–32, 449. The boldface
emphasis of “de facto segregation” is how the textbook presents
the term, expecting that this will help students remember the
importance that the textbook authors assign to the concept.
p. 200, 2 Sewall (online) attempts to keep track of the most commonly used
textbooks. I’ve looked at many, but not all, of the textbooks he
lists.
p. 201, 1 For a summary account of Romney’s Open Communities plan, and
its fate, see Santow and Rothstein 2012. It draws on Romney 1969;