Just Action - How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law

"The most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighbourhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson), The Color of Law has become a landmark work, selling nearly 1,000,000 copies. Aware that twenty-first-century segregation continues to promote inequality and exploit political polarisation, Richard Rothstein paired with housing policy expert Leah Rothstein to write Just Action, a book that energises local organisations to win community victories that might finally challenge residential segregation and cascade into a groundswell movement. The co-authors have produced a social blueprint for community leaders, concerned residents and everyday citizens alike, insisting that the private sector take responsibility for redressing the segregation that it played a large part in creating. Whether providing strategies for protecting renters' rights and security, diminishing the dangerous black-white wealth gap, opening up exclusive white areas to diverse residents or stemming "white flight" from neighbourhoods in transition, Just Action, with trenchant insight, provides the groundwork for remedying America's profoundly unconstitutional past.

About the author

Leah Rothstein’s expertise in the full range of housing policy stems from more than two decades of experience as a consultant to affordable housing developers and local governments and as a community and union organizer. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of Law and father to co-author Leah Rothstein, has written many books and articles on educational policy and racial inequality. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Product details

• Authors: Leah Rothstein, Richard Rothstein, Rothstein Richard
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781324096177
• ISBN: 978-1-324-09617-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 289 g
• Illustrations: 15 black-and-white illustrations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Social discrimination and social justice