![]() ![]() With some of this, the major causes of the systemic residential segregation in this country were the racially explicit policies and enactments of our federal, state and local governments and courts. ![]() Where whites and Blacks should and could live.ĭe facto segregation may be caused by racially prejudiced individuals, white flight, steering by real estate agents, redlining, Blacks with less education and less income, and Black families preferring to live with one another. What gets missed is the racially explicit federal, state and local government policies that dictated Americans have assumed for generations that segregation in this country was de facto segregation based on the consequences of private racial prejudice. In the book The Color of Law, author Richard Rothstein presents the history of how government action in this country led to the creation of segregation that continues in many parts of our nation today. ![]()
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