18 must-read politics books like Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

By: Richard Rothstein

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Actio…

If you liked the politics plot in Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law by Richard Rothstein , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen

1. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more

Similar categories in Jared Cohen's Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Gurba's Creep: Accusations and Confessions book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • nonfiction
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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3. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By: Jake Bittle

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more

Similar categories in Jake Bittle's The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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4. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • social justice
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5. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • economics
  • sociology
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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6. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

Similar categories in Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • history
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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7. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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8. Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

By: Eric Klinenberg

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our frac… read more

Similar categories in Eric Klinenberg's Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
"Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the neighborly community."

-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

"Even the Internet, which was supposed to deliver unprecedented cultural diversity ad democratic communication, has become an echo chamber where people see and hear what they already believe."

-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

"Today, our communities are full of children whose future, like Jelani's, will be formed in the places where they go to learn about themselves and the world they'll inherit. They deserve palaces. Whet…"

-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

"The accessible physical space of the library is not the only factor that makes it work well as social infrastructure. The institution's extensive programming, organized by a professional staff that u…"

-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

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9. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

Similar categories in Wesley Lowery's American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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10. The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

By: Kathryn J. Edin

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the a… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn J. Edin's The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
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11. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
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12. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

Similar categories in Barbara McQuade's Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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13. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

By: Laura Meckler

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In th… read more

Similar categories in Laura Meckler's Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • sociology
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14. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

By: Elizabeth Rush

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Risi… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • nonfiction
  • history
"It occurred to me... I ought to treat Antarctica not as a desolate outpost at the end of the earth but as a place where life begins."

-Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

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15. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

By: Dorothy A. Brown

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy A. Brown's The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"

-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

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16. City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

By: Megan Kimble

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and … read more

Similar categories in Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • politics
  • urban planning
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

By: Gregg Colburn

4.23

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Colburn's Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
Cover of Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

18. Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

By: Richard Rothstein

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Actio… read more

Similar categories in Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • economics
  • sociology
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19. Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life

By: Nicholas D. Kristof

4.55

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, … read more

Similar categories in Nicholas D. Kristof's Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen

20. Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change

By: Ben Austen

4.36

Format: None pages, None

Author of HIGH-RISERS Ben Austen's CORRECTION: PAROLE AND AMERICAN JUSTICE, an exploration of the U… read more

Similar categories in Ben Austen's Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
Cover of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It by Ari Berman

21. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It

By: Ari Berman

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democ… read more

Similar categories in Ari Berman's Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It book and Richard Rothstein's Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law

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Jared Cohen

4.27

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Jake Bittle

4.28

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

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Matthew Desmond

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Siddharth Kara

4.37

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Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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Dan Egan

4.23

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Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

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