Join us for a provocative discussion with prominent scholar Richard Rothstein, whose latest book The Color of Law, exposes how the United States’ vexing history of segregated housing—including in the San Francisco Bay Area—can be traced to explicit government policies at the local, state and federal levels.
The timely book, subtitled “A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” comes as communities throughout the Bay Area grapple with a crisis in housing, gentrification, displacement. Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshal Institute.
Speaker
Richard Rothstein is Senior Fellow at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law; and a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute.
He is the author of Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (Teachers College Press and EPI, 2008) and Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap (Teachers College Press 2004). He is also the author of The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America’s Student Achievement (1998). Other recent books include The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement (co-authored in 2005); and All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? (co-authored in 2003).
Targeted Audience
This program is open to all NCG members and members of Renaissance Journalism. If you are a NCG member, please log in to register for the program. If you are not a NCG member, please register by emailing registrar@ncg.org.
Co-Sponsor
Renaissance Journalism’s Bay Area Media Collaborative www.renjournalism.org