Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration

Review: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Maren Trochmann

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/jsepa.v1i2.4948

Keywords: housing discrimination , racism, segregation

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Abstract

By Richard Rothstein. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation,

W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. 346 pages, hardcover.

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Author Biography

Maren Trochmann, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Maren B. Trochmann, PhD (she/her) (maren.trochmann@gmail.com) is a Supervisory Housing Program Specialist at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her research interests include social equity, public personnel administration, and the nexus between public administration theory and practice.

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