Winter Break Book Club with Professor Kiel!

Looking for something to fill your time in the lull between final exams and the start of the spring semester??  What better way than to participate in the second edition of Professor Kiel’s winter break book club.  The book is The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.  Participating is simple – read the book, then get together with peers to explore further (probably in early February) 

 More on this year’s book…In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation—the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments—that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

 Interested students should send an email to Professor Kiel (dkiel@memphis.edu).