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

but mostly I’ve simply summarized existing, though no longer popular,
literature.
Two older works provided an overview of de jure segregation that
helped me frame my subsequent research and argument that brings together
the many facets of de jure segregation. They are underrepresented in the
source citations, but readers should be aware that I relied heavily on them to
develop a framework for the argument. In many cases, it was these books
that led me to more detailed sources.
Two overviews influenced me the most: Robert Weaver’s The Negro
Ghetto (1948) and James A. Kushner’s book-length law review article,
“Apartheid in America” (1980). I read these early in my research and
cannot overly stress the extent to which each framed my subsequent
research and argument. Kenneth Jackson’s Crabgrass Frontier (1985)
called attention to the role of the FHA in creating whites-only suburbs, not
only through its individual mortgage insurance program but with its
financing of large-scale developments of segregated housing. Most
scholarship in this field can be traced back to this seminal work and to
Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton’s American Apartheid (1993). Two
more recent books on the history of segregation in individual cities also
helped me develop the overview for this book: Arnold R. Hirsch’s Making
the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960, originally
published in 1983 and then updated in 1998; and Thomas J. Sugrue’s The
Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
(1996).
My citations of these six sources cannot adequately convey my debt to
them. Readers interested in delving more deeply into the themes of The
Color of Law would be well advised to familiarize themselves with these
works before attempting to track down the more narrowly focused items
listed in the Bibliography.
I also recommend Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Residential segregation
underpins our racial problems today, and the mass incarceration of young
black men, often without sufficient cause, is the most serious. Integrating
the nation residentially is a long-term project, but the criminal justice
system’s targeting of young men living in black neighborhoods is an urgent