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Two emotions predominated while reading this book: shock 😱 & SMDH 🤦🏻♀️. The first from the sheer continued audacity of blatant systemic racism in housing and building of equity and it’s continued consequences and the second from having my cynical impressions confirmed. Rothstein concludes by proposing some doable tactics to sacrifice a little to help all, but in a country that can’t even wear masks to prevent people from dying, how can we even begin to correct this?
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Two emotions predominated while reading this book: shock 😱 & SMDH 🤦🏻♀️. The first from the sheer continued audacity of blatant systemic racism in housing and building of equity and it’s continued consequences and the second from having my cynical impressions confirmed. Rothstein concludes by proposing some doable tactics to sacrifice a little to help all, but in a country that can’t even wear masks to prevent people from dying, how can we even begin to correct this?
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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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May 14, 2018
Aimee
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May 24, 2018
Michelle Marie
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Jul 26, 2018
Christina
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Dec 16, 2018
Laura Watkins
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