Parallel Paths and the Policies that Divided Our Built Environment and Separated Races

 

Please join us for this joint event with NOMA Cleveland to hear Richard's presentation. Due to our generous sponsors, this event is free and we are able to mail a limited number of Richard's book, The Color of Law to attendees. Books will be mailed for free to attendees until they are gone.

Please join us in this joint event with NOMA Cleveland to hear Richard present. Due to our generous Richard Rothstein is a former columnist for the New York Times and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, as well as a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Rothstein has spent years documenting the evidence that government not merely ignored discriminatory practices in the residential sphere, but promoted them. The impact has been devastating for generations of African-Americans who were denied the right to live where they wanted to live, and raise and school their children where they thought best.

During the presentation on Parallel Paths and the Policies that Divided Our Built Environment and Separated Races, Richard Rothstein will argue with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America-the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife-is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal level.

Rothstein will demonstrate how the government and our courts  upheld  racist policies to maintain the separation of races. This presentation is not a tale of Red versus Blue states, but rather the story of America in all of its municipalities, large and small, liberal and reactionary. This event will present a hard-hitting argument condemning federal, state, and local governments for devising laws that enforce segregation.

 

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Cost: Free

1 HSW CEU

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Learning Objectives:

• Examine the difference between de facto, segregation and de jure, government-sponsored segregation.
• Understand the impacts of how government policies rooted in racism reinforced and solidified racial division in cities across the country, and led to inequitable housing conditions for entire communities.
• Understand how to work towards equitable policies and identify solutions to improve the well-being of all adversely impacted communities, especially those of color.
• To acquire knowledge of how historic data was collected to produce demographic maps used for city planning, resulting in the inequitable racial segration of various communities.

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