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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. According to Rothstein, what purposes did local governments seize black neighborhoods for?
2. What is a problem Rothstein says that African Americans suffer from as a result of poor housing conditions?
3. Why did it not matter to black families that the courts generally saw through the racial motivations of developers who demolished black or integrated neighborhoods?
4. When was the second Great Migration that brought black families north?
5. What program does Rothstein say was integral to Houston’s segregation plans?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did cities use slum clearance as a justification for segregation?
2. Who does Rothstein say suffers for the segregation black families have faced?
3. How does Rothstein characterize the obstacles faced by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in desegregating Richmond, CA?
4. What steps were taken to keep Wilbur Gary from moving into his house in the Rollingwood development in Richmond, CA?
5. What does Rothstein say was the fate of George Romney’s attempts at integration in 1970?
6. Why does Rothstein examine the wage suppression of African Americans?
7. How does Rothstein say the 2008 housing collapse affected black families?
8. What does Rothstein say was the IRS’ role in promoting segregation?
9. What other local tactics does Rothstein describe?
10. What effect does Rothstein say the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision have on housing segregation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is The Color of Law most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 2
Does Rothstein’s book benefit, or is it diminished, by Rothstein’s calm, academic tone? Would more anger or the presence of other emotions have helped him make his argument? Or would it have hurt the legitimacy of his thesis and evidence? For what audiences would a more emotional narrative be more appropriate?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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