Just Action

Like the “second album” of a great new singer whose first hit was a smash out of nowhere, this book is a great disappointment after “The Color of Law” —but to be fair, the book faces a much greater challenge compared to a history — it’s a book of policy ideas and constantly has to struggle with trying to remain optimistic in the face of what it documents as pretty overwhelming structural forces cementing in place the segregated residential landscape created by expressly and consciously racist governmental policies during the greatest building boom in US history (and maybe world history up until post 2000 China).