Book Log 2020 #69: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

If you want to be infuriated by a book, this would be an excellent choice. Not for the writing, but for the subject matter. Rothstein breaks down in meticulous detail how government agencies promoted the de jure segregation of neighborhoods through the discriminatory application of various financial and real estate laws. If you've heard of the practice of redlining, but wasn't sure what it meant, this book will give you all of information you need - and then some - to understand how generations of people who weren't white were locked out of home ownership and the accumulation of generational wealth.

This book helps explain how historical discrimination continues to affect Americans today, from lagging in personal wealth to education outcomes to social status. It is very much worth reading, as angry as it may make you.