government played a key role in actively promoting racial segregation in access to housing after World War II through redlining policies, predatory loans, and scare tactics. Rothstein’s book tells the story of how the U.S. Books and articles about policy can often be pretty tedious, says Rachel, but Rothstein “makes policy accessible by telling individual people’s stories.” In Rothstein’s book, there is some “emotion” behind the dry policy. The Color of Law was an assigned text in Rachel’s Public Policy and Housing course. That book was Richard Rothstein’s 2017 volume, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. When Rachel Baker, intern architect at Caddis Collaborative, was studying architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, she encountered a book that changed her thinking about housing in America.
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