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Bezig met laden... The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America (editie 2017)door Richard Rothstein
Informatie over het werkThe Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America door Richard Rothstein (Author)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. NF A good book, and a really important topic that doesn't get enough attention. Black people have been put into a severe disadvantage due to governmentally enforced segregation, and it has awful effects that need to be reversed if this country wants to pretend it gives anything resembling a fair shot to all races. In this book, Rothstein extensively details a pattern of state sponsored segregation, from the federal level, state level, county and cities. It is an important distinction, because legal cases for forced integration, or damages claimed from segregation, have been struck down on the grounds that the state has not taken part in it, which is obviously and demonstratively false. The book did get a little long winded at times, repeating case after case where the government had a hand. I understand the point of it, but it wasn't incredibly engaging at times. At the end of the book, Rothstein suggested ways of moving forward, and promoting integration. I was a bit disappointed by this section. I wish it were a little more fleshed out. I also wish it weren't so pessimistic. It felt like most of the suggestions were immediately struck down with "but this would never happen in today's political climate". If there's no chance of positive change happening, what's the entire point of this book? It felt a bit defeatist, and a bit of a bummer, and what should have been an optimistic way to end a long bummer of a book.
But since American schools don’t teach the true history of systemic racial segregation, Rothstein asks, “Is it any wonder [students] come to believe that African-Americans are only segregated because they don’t want to marry or because they prefer to live only among themselves?” Only when Americans learn a common—and accurate—history of our nation’s racial divisions, he contends, will we then be able to consider steps to fulfill our legal and moral obligations. For the rest of us, still trying to work past 40 years of misinformation, there might not be a better place to start than Rothstein’s book. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
De Verenigde Staten zijn nog steeds verre van een 'melting pot'. De raciale segregatie in grote Amerikaanse steden of metropolen werd in het verleden bewust in gang gezet en in stand gehouden door wetten en beleidsbeslissingen vanuit de verschillende overheden, lokaal, staat en federaal. De 'Fair housing act' uit 1968 verbood discriminatie op woonplaats voor o.a. Afro-Amerikanen, maar keerde diep ingewortelde woonpatronen niet om. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)305.800973Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism General Biography And History North America United StatesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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