We are reading and discussing Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law. If a video was made of our discussions, it can be viewed by clicking on the chapter title.

Date Chapter Page Leader
Sept 29 Preface & 1. If San Francisco, Then Everywhere? vii and 3 David
Oct 6 2. Public Housing, Black Ghettos - Part 1 I7 Al
Oct 13 2. Public Housing, Black Ghettos - Part 2 I7 Al
Oct 20 3. Racial Zoning 39 Jack
Oct 27 4. "Own Your Own Home" 59 Patsy
Nov 3 5. Private Agreements, Government Enforcement 77 David
Nov 10 6. White Flight 93 Al
Nov 17 7. IRS Support and Compliant Regulators 101 Gail
Nov 24 8. Local Tactics 115 Jack
Dec 1 Thanksgiving weekend recess
Dec 8 9. State-Sanctioned Violence 139 Mary Jane
Dec 15 10. Suppressed Incomes 153 Al
Dec 22 11. Looking Forward, Looking Back 177 Patsy
Dec 29 Christmas & New Years recess
Jan 5, 2025 12. Considering Fixes & Epilogue 195 Caroline

For this book, the notes may be useful. They contain more information than just references.

To watch videos of our prior discussions of:

  1. several TED talks,
  2. Jonathan Sacks’s book Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times,
  3. Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,
  4. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s book The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is our Song,
  5. Elaine Pagels’s book Revelations: Vision, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation and
  6. Craig R. Koester’s Great Courses video lectures titled Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History
  7. Peniel Joseph’s book The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.
  8. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  9. Dina Gilio-Whitaker’s book As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock.
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