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A 2021 C. Wright Mills Award Finalist
Shows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.
The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution…
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Sheryll Cashin has impressed me ever since we were law school classmates. Now a Georgetown Law Professor, she is not only a brilliant analyst but also a vivid storyteller.
She shows how the high levels of racial and economic segregation that many take for granted is not at all natural and do profound harm to Americans of all backgrounds.
From Richard's list on government housing rules in America.
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