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This book presents an eye-opening look at the ways in which the US federal, as well as state and local government(s), intentionally created segregated communities, as opposed to the common view that separate communities arose out of Black preference, private prejudice, corporate discrimination, or the broader force of income inequality (not race). The myriad ways in government engineered segregation is outlined in painful detail, methodically, chapter-by-chapter, each chapter focusing on a diffe
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Glad I read this as an audiobook because it's the kind of nonfiction I always want to read but have a hard time pushing my way through. It's much easier to just listen as I cook or do something easy around the house with my hands. This is a history of 20th century housing policy and demonstrates widespread segregation and the many ways the US government supported and required segregation in places like New York, Ohio, Missouri, California, Illinois, as well as the more famously segregated South.
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I’m giving this 5 stars, although it could have also been a successful long form article. Great analysis of the government’s explicit actions in housing discrimination and the long term effects that has had not just on housing but also education and job opportunities for African Americans.
Apr 15, 2018
taeli
marked it as to-read
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Rachel Harlich
marked it as to-read
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