Hear a recording of a half day forum focused on residential racial segregation and launching a project to help us understand where we are today. Speakers include Richard Rothstein, john a. powell, and Lisa Rice.
Part of a larger series deconstructing our idea of race, this chapter focuses on how racist housing policy led to de facto and de jure segregation and the racial wealth gap we see today. (Run time 29:18)
Explaining the racist federal housing policies (e.g. redlining and racial covenants) that systematically created America’s racial wealth gap (Run time 15:08)
An overview of housing policies that created racial segregation we see in cities today. Narrated by Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law (Run time 17:42)