The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard RothsteinOne of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017 Longlisted for the National Book Award This powerful and disturbing history exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that Americas cities came to be racially divided