Jessica Trounstine
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Segregation by Design
- By: Jessica Trounstine
- Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 09, 2021
- Language: English
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Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used... Read more
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