Ben Waber reviewed American Apartheid by Douglas S. Massey
An Interesting But Dated Book
3 stars
This book takes a sociological and philosophical perspective on the role of America's exclusionary housing policies in driving continued segregation and low socio-economic mobility for Black people in the US through the early 1990s. It shows that this book is ~30 years old - cringe-inducing statements around racial differences, a lack of quantitative rigor to back up sweeping statements made about different ethnic groups, etc. Read this book for the legal and policy history, which is much deeper and richer than I've seen in most other books on this topic.
This book takes a sociological and philosophical perspective on the role of America's exclusionary housing policies in driving continued segregation and low socio-economic mobility for Black people in the US through the early 1990s. It shows that this book is ~30 years old - cringe-inducing statements around racial differences, a lack of quantitative rigor to back up sweeping statements made about different ethnic groups, etc. Read this book for the legal and policy history, which is much deeper and richer than I've seen in most other books on this topic.