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

By Richard Rothstein. 2017

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Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, positive): “…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.”
Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research (2019, unknown): “Segregation was created by federal policies as well as by explicit governmental support of private policies such as discriminatory zoning, mortgage discrimination, redlining, and restrictive covenants (107).”
Ensuring Fairness in Machine Learning to Advance Health Equity (2018, unknown): “Zoning laws, discrimination in mortgage lending, prejudicial practices by real estate agents, and the ghettoization of public housing all contributed to the concentration of urban African Americans in inferior housing that has led to poor health (9, 10).”