Howard County Library System’s author events are a key component of the HCLS curriculum. Notable, best-selling, and local authors provide customers with enlightening experiences throughout the year. Bringing the community together to celebrate the literary arts is a hallmark of HCLS customer service. Join us for these opportunities to meet one of your favorite authors or discover someone new!
Meet the Author: Richard Rothstein and The Color of Law
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Branch: Miller
Description:
Richard Rothstein discusses his book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, a critically acclaimed exploration of segregation as the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels. The Color of Law was designated one of ten finalists on the National Book Awards' long list for the best nonfiction book of 2017.
Richard Rothstein is a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California, where is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California-Berkeley.
Books available for purchase and signing.
"Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law is one of those rare books that will be discussed and debated for many decades. Based on careful analyses of multiple historical documents, Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation."
- William Julius Wilson, author of The Truly Disadvantaged
"Essential...Rothstein persuasively debunks many contemporary myths about racial discrimination... Only when Americans learn a common-and accurate-history of our nation's racial divisions, he contends, will we then be able to consider steps to fulfill our legal and moral obligations. For the rest of us, still trying to work past 40 years of misinformation, there might not be a better place to start than Rothstein's book."
- Rachel M. Cohen, Slate
Presented in partnership with the Horizon Foundation.
*Registration is required. Register online or by calling 410-313-1950.
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