The COLOR of LAW Book Study is presented collaboratively with Trustbuilding, DASH, The City of Lagrange Housing Authority, and the Community Development Director of the City of Lagrange. A different presenter from each organization will lead the discussion each week. They include Zsa Zsa Heard, Alton West, Nate Crawford, and Chalton Askew.
The book club will meet on Wednesdays from 11:45 a.m. til 1:15 p.m. on June 1, 8. 15, & 22, 2022, at Pretty Good Books, 118 Church Street, Lagrange, Georgia. Lunch is not provided but feel free to bring your own. Books may also be purchased at Pretty Good Books if you need one. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
The COLOR of LAW is heralded as a “masterful” and “essential” history of the modern American metropolis. It is a groundbreaking investigation into how U.S. governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide in the twentieth century. Richard Rothstein, the author, describes how federal, state, and local governments systematically imposed residential segregation.
ABOUT RICHARD ROTHSTEIN
Although Richard Rothstein is now best-known for The Color of Law, during most of his lengthy career as a historian Rothstein focused on studying education policy and school segregation. He switched to studying housing discrimination in the 2000s and 2010s after realizing that American schools remain segregated principally because American neighborhoods are so segregated. Earlier in his career, Rothstein taught for several years at Columbia and Harvard Universities, in addition to writing a column on education issues for The New York Times from 1999 to 2002. Rothstein is affiliated with a number of universities, think tanks, and civil rights organizations, including the Economic Policy Institute, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law’s Othering & Belonging Institute (formerly the Haas Institute). He has also received an Honorary Doctorate from the Bank Street College of Education in 2015, and his son Jesse Rothstein is also a professor specializing in education issues.
