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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 does Rothstein say police knew of, and ignored, in the rioters at Bill Myers’ house?
2. What does Rothstein say happened to George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, when he started a program called Open Communities to deny federal funds to localities that still had racially restrictive covenant and exclusionary zoning ordinances?
3. What program does Rothstein say was integral to Houston’s segregation plans?
4. How does Rothstein say American wages changed between 1945 and 1973?
5. What should the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Comptroller of the Currency should have done but did not do?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did cities use slum clearance as a justification for segregation?
2. What role did the federal government play in the riot outside Bill Myers’ house in Levittown in Pennsylvania?
3. What does Rothstein say was the IRS’ role in promoting segregation?
4. What strategies does Rothstein say whites used to keep black wages down?
5. What complicating variable does Rothstein include in listing the consequences of growing up in poverty?
6. Why does Rothstein say housing is such a difficult field for righting past injustices?
7. Why does Rothstein examine the wage suppression of African Americans?
8. How does Rothstein say wage growth affected African Americans differently than whites?
9. How has appreciation affected the wealth disparity between black and white families in America?
10. How were African Americans denied the right to collectively bargain for better wages?
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
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 3
Evaluate the ending of The Color of Law. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?
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