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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 is de facto segregation?
2. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?
3. What concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?
4. What does Rothstein say was the first consequence of black families moving into whites neighborhoods through blockbusting?
5. What percentage of Westchester county, NY, subdivisions with more than 75 units, built between 1935 and 1947 does Rothstein say had racially restrictive covenants?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the Supreme Court’s logic when it upheld an exclusionary zoning ordinance in Arlington Heights, Chicago in 1977?
2. How do the political parties that operated in America in the late 1800s correspond to today’s political parties?
3. What was the economic argument racist local governments used for restricting black families’ housing options?
4. When black families could end up getting mortgages, how does Rothstein say those mortgages affected them?
5. How did the New Deal affect segregation of housing in the U.S.?
6. What is blockbusting?
7. How does Rothstein say UCLA students in Westwood, near Los Angeles, got around their neighborhood’s racially restrictive covenants?
8. How did community associations evolve out of racially restrictive covenants?
9. How does Rothstein circumvent the argument that racially restrictive covenants and exclusionary zoning ordinances were private agreements?
10. What strategies would blockbusters use to create panic in white families?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do you think it would take, to change the laws on a national level, to remedy the injustice that was perpetrated since reconstruction began in 1877? Could a charismatic leader do it? Would it take a grass-roots movement? Would it take a crisis that would allow hard decisions to be made?
Essay Topic 2
What are the problems or limitations of Rothstein’s argument in The Color of Law? Where is his argument the weakest? Where could his argument be stronger? Does he fully accomplish the goals he sets out for the book?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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