How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under The Color Of Law

November 6, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (MST)

Description

Virtual webinar 

Brought to you by the Colorado Association of REALTORS® and the Mountain Metro Association of REALTORS® Diversity Committees.

Each registration comes with a copy of the newly released book Just Action.

Join us for a virtual lecture by Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, and Leah Rothstein, the co-author with Richard Rothstein, a sequel to The Color of Law, Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law.

Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems. We’ve taken no serious steps to desegregate neighborhoods, however, because we are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is de facto—the result of private discrimination or personal choices that do not violate constitutional rights. The Color of Law demonstrates, however, that residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy. Just Action describes how we can begin to address this, providing dozens of strategies local groups can pursue to redress segregation in their own communities. By starting with achievable local victories, we can build a national movement that can remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape.

Meet the Speakers:

Richard Rothstein is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. A Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and of the Haas Institute at the University of California.

Leah Rothstein is co-author, with Richard Rothstein, on the sequel to The Color of Law. Leah has worked on public policy and community change, from the grassroots to the halls of government. She led the Alameda County and San Francisco probation departments’ research on reforming community corrections policy and practice to be focused on rehabilitation, not punishment. She has been a consultant to nonprofit housing developers, cities and counties, redevelopment agencies, and private firms on community development and affordable housing policy, practice, and finance.