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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
2. When was the Fair Housing Act passed?
3. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?
4. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
5. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the distinction Rothstein makes between de jure and de facto segregation?
2. How do the political parties that operated in America in the late 1800s correspond to today’s political parties?
3. What strategies would blockbusters use to create panic in white families?
4. What does Rothstein say the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concluded about the American government’s role in creating segregation?
5. How did civil rights groups shifted their strategies in the 1960s, according to Rothstein?
6. How did many of the African-American men in Rothstein’s study rise to the status where they could afford to buy houses?
7. How did life change in the South in 1877?
8. How did the government overcome expense as a barrier to home ownership under Hoover?
9. What does Rothstein say the purpose of his book is?
10. How did community associations evolve out of racially restrictive covenants?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify the most important plot points in The Color of Law. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
Essay Topic 2
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for The Color of Law? What is the ideal reader for The Color of Law likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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