Richard Rothstein is an American academic and author affiliated with the Economic Policy Institute, and a senior fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.[1][2] His current research focuses on the history of segregation in the United States with regards to education and housing.
Richard Rothstein | |
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 Rothstein in 2015 | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, author |
| Children | Jesse Rothstein Leah Rothstein |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Education and housing policy |
| Notable works | The Color of Law |
| Website | www |
Career
editFrom 1999 until 2002, Rothstein was the national education columnist for The New York Times.[3] and had been a senior fellow at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley until it closed in 2015. Rothstein was then affiliated with the Haas Institute at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.[4]
His 2017 book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, argues that racial housing segregation is the result of government policy at all levels—federal, state, and local. Rothstein disagreed with the prevailing view affirmed by Supreme Court in the 1973 decision Miliken v. Bradley and a subsequent 2007 decision: that housing segregation is primarily the result of private racism and decisions.[5] A review in The New York Times said that there was "no better history" of housing segregation, while Rachel Cohen of Slate called The Color of Law "essential."[6][7]
Bibliography
edit- The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement (1998)[8]
- All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? (co-authored in 2003)[9]
- Class and Schools (2004)[10]
- The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement (co-authored in 2005)[11]
- Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (2008)[12]
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017)
- Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law (with Leah Rothstein) (2023)
References
edit- ^ "Richard Rothstein".
- ^ "Virtual Author Event: Richard Rothstein on the Color of Law | the Bill Lane Center for the American West".
- ^ Rothstein, Richard (November 10, 1999). "LESSONS; Does Social Class Matter in School?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 19, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
- ^ "Richard Rothstein | Haas Institute". haasinstitute.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on April 13, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
- ^ Greenhouse, Linda (June 29, 2007). "Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
- ^ Oshinsky, David (June 20, 2017). "A Powerful, Disturbing History of Residential Segregation in America". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 13, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
- ^ Cohen, Rachel M. (May 5, 2017). "Discrimination Is Not De Facto". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Archived from the original on April 13, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
- ^ "The Way We Were? The Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement". Economic Policy Institute. Archived from the original on April 13, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
- ^ "Virtual Author Event: Richard Rothstein on the Color of Law | the Bill Lane Center for the American West".
- ^ "Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap". Economic Policy Institute. Archived from the original on April 13, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
- ^ "Virtual Author Event: Richard Rothstein on the Color of Law | the Bill Lane Center for the American West".
- ^ "Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right". Economic Policy Institute. Archived from the original on April 13, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2018.