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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. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?
2. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?
3. 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?
4. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?
5. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did life change in the South in 1877?
2. What was the economic argument racist local governments used for restricting black families’ housing options?
3. How does Rothstein say blacks were prevented from voting in South Carolina in 1876?
4. What strategies would blockbusters use to create panic in white families?
5. How do the political parties that operated in America in the late 1800s correspond to today’s political parties?
6. What effect does Rothstein say Woodrow Wilson had on integration in the U.S. government?
7. How was housing policy affected by the 1968 Jones decision?
8. How does Rothstein say UCLA students in Westwood, near Los Angeles, got around their neighborhood’s racially restrictive covenants?
9. How does Rothstein say deeds were used as mechanisms of segregation, and how does he say they were backed as de jure segregation?
10. Where does Rothstein say public housing started in the U.S.?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
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?
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