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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 else was covered beside who could buy a house in a racially restrictive covenant?
2. What evidence does Rothstein say contradicts this claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
3. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?
4. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
5. Where does Rothstein say blockbusting had its roots?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did many of the African-American men in Rothstein’s study rise to the status where they could afford to buy houses?
2. How does Rothstein say UCLA students in Westwood, near Los Angeles, got around their neighborhood’s racially restrictive covenants?
3. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s Buchanan decision in 1917?
4. What is blockbusting?
5. What does Rothstein say public housing means now, and what did it originally meant?
6. What was the Supreme Court’s logic when it upheld an exclusionary zoning ordinance in Arlington Heights, Chicago in 1977?
7. What backing does Rothstein say the FHA presented to support its claim that African Americans lowered property values?
8. What is the distinction Rothstein makes between de jure and de facto segregation?
9. What problems does Rothstein say developers encountered when they tried to sell to African-American families?
10. How did the New Deal affect segregation of housing in the U.S.?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do you think it must have felt like, within a family unit or community, for African Americans to encounter this systemic injustice? How do you think it would have affected people of different ages or temperaments? How would parents have had to explain to their children that they could not live in nice houses, or could not protest, because of the dangers? How would they have had to manage the outrage or anger that are inevitable when confronted with blatant injustice?
Essay Topic 2
How has the housing policy Rothstein describes affected you and your family? How has your housing been determined by the programs or incentives or subsidies or prohibitions Rothstein describes? How has your family been influenced for better or worse by U.S. housing policy?
Essay Topic 3
Would you recommend The Color of Law? For what purposes would you recommend The Color of Law, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
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