The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By Alison Mills. 2017

The Color of Law examines the local, state and federal housing policies that mandated segregation. He notes that the Federal Housing Administration, which was established in 1934, furthered the segregation efforts by refusing to insure mortgages in and near African-American neighborhoods — a policy known as "redlining." At the same time, the FHA was subsidizing builders who were mass-producing entire subdivisions for whites — with the requirement that none of the homes be sold to AfricanAmericans. (Source)

Subfields: Social Sciences & Humanities

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Social Sciences & Humanities

Citations in the corpus

Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, background): “…of institutions and policies that help to maintain racial hierarchies by systematically denying them the opportunities to develop wealth that are available to white Americans (Rothstein, 2017)— an exclusion that is reproduced in technology by countless decisions like the one described above.”
High energy burden and low-income energy affordability: conclusions from a literature review (2020, unknown): “This 8 Rothstein 2017.”
The Forgotten Margins of AI Ethics (2022, background): “By using not only attributes such as the race of individuals arrested, but also geographically linked data (such as number of crimes within a given area), the system created an increased surveillance and policing state that was particularly devastating for the Black population of Kansas City (see [6”
Holc “Redlining” Maps: The Persistent Structure of Segregation and Economic Inequality (2018, background): “, even in places not commonly associated with “Jim Crow” segregation laws (Rothstein 2017).”
The false promise of risk assessments: epistemic reform and the limits of fairness (2020, background): “118, 150] and blacks have been subjected to myriad forms of oppression (including redlining and segregation [141], the war on drugs [3, 86], and severe underfunding of schools [46]) that contribute to increasing crime [93, 97, 139, 142].”
Fair lending needs explainable models for responsible recommendation (2018, background): “Accounting for such data quality errors has added moral and ethical dimensions [7, 12], particularly when noting that the presence of such issues is itself correlated with protected classes, such as race, due to complex socioeconomic factors [2, 27, 28, 46].”
Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality* (2020, background): “The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, as a number of other programs passed in the 1930s and 1940s, thus had a discriminatory dimension (Katznelson, 2006; Mettler, 1994; Rothstein, 2017).”
The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC “redlining” maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success (2020, background): “This has led some observers to argue that the practices of these Federal agencies played a role in the high levels of segregation during the middle of the twentieth century (Hirsch 1983; Massey and Denton 1993; Sugrue 1996; Logan 2016; Rothstein 2017).”
Deconstructing Community-Based Collaborative Design (2019, background): “federal initiative enacted by private industries that systematized unfair mortgage lending practices by refusing loans to minorities desiring to purchase homes in predominately White neighborhoods as well as rejecting loans to Whites desiring to move into neighborhoods where even some minorities liv”