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

Richard Rothstein is an American historian whose research focuses on the history of segregation in the United States. He is a senior fellow at the Haas Institute at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, a distinguished fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and a senior fellow emeritus at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Between 1998 and 2002, he was the national education columnist for The New York Times. Following its publication in 2017, The Color of Law won numerous awards and honors, including the California Book Award for Nonfiction and the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction; it was also longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The Color of Law was included on Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year list and was named an NPR Best Book of the Year.