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Just action : how to challenge segregation enacted under the color of law / Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein.

Rothstein, Richard, (author.). Rothstein, Leah, (author.).

Summary:

Twenty million Americans participated in racial justice demonstrations in 2020. Although many displayed "Black Lives Matter" window and lawn signs, few considered what could be done to redress inequality in their own communities. Page by page, Just Action offers programs that activists and their supporters can undertake in their communities to address historical inequities, providing bona fide answers, based on decades of study and experience, in a nation awash with speculative memes and internet theories. Often forced to respond to social and political outrage, banks, real estate agencies, and developers, among other institutions, have apologized for past actions. But their pledges to improve--some of them real, others thoroughly hollow--cannot compensate for existing damage. Just Action shows how community groups can press firms that imposed segregation to take responsibility for reversing the harm, creating victories that might finally challenge residential segregation and help remedy America's profoundly unconstitutional past. -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781324093244
ISBN: 1324093242
Physical Description: viii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-311) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. 1. Laying the groundwork -- You should just do it -- Dare to defy -- Make a plan -- pt. 2. Expanding housing opportunities everywhere -- Is homeownership the answer? It's complicated -- Mix 'em up! -- pt. 3. Investing in segregated black neighborhoods -- Invest in place -- Stop the fraud -- What's a house worth? -- Where the money flows -- pt. 4. Opening up white communities -- Make the exclusive inclusive -- Hold them accountable? -- Desegregate for the long term.