In his book The Color of Law, author and historian Richard Rothstein makes the case that the modern American metropolis was created with deliberate, de jure segregation, with the help of things including racial zoning, redlining, and a phenomenon known as "The Great Migration" and "White Flight." And ultimately, as the book's subtitle suggests, The Color of Law talks about how the U.S. Government "segregated America."
When it was released, The Color of Law received positive reviews. Kirkus Reviews, for example, loved the book and wrote that it is "An informed, important exposé of the nation’s institutionalized racism that would have been even more reader-friendly with the inclusion of more individual case histories." Publisher's Weekly also liked the book, opining that "This compassionate and scholarly diagnosis of past policies and prescription for our current racial maladies shines a bright light on some shadowy spaces."
