Publisher's Synopsis
Government of the Author "The most persuasive case ever made on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and sustained neighborhood segregation," according to Segregated America. He debunks the myth of de facto segregation resulting from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces by describing how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: through undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to build whites-only suburbs; and tax exemptions for institutions.
