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English
Cambridge University Press
09 October 2025
Over a century after racial zoning was invalidated, American land use remains racially unjust. When racist tools were abolished, other facially neutral tools were created or adapted to maintain white power and wealth. Policies, practices, and laws evolved to embed racial inequality and white supremacy deeply into institutional structures and landscapes. Despite modest improvements since the early twentieth century, land use and neighborhood conditions for Black people and other people of color remain dramatically worse than for whites. Discrimination and segregation persist. This enduring and multi-faceted nature of racial injustice in the American land use system means that there is no one cause and no one solution. Instead, this book advocates for nuanced systemic change. Using cross-disciplinary analysis in social-movement history, legal theory, and public policy, the authors call for a racial-justice transformation that integrates grassroots racial-justice activism, newly revitalized anti-subordination legal theories, and many different public policy reforms.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Weight:   586g
ISBN:   9781108477802
ISBN 10:   1108477801
Pages:   350
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Cedric Merlin Powell is a prominent Constitutional Law scholar and structural inequality theorist on neutrality and post-racial constitutionalism. He is the author of two other books from Cambridge University Press: Post-Racial Constitutionalism and the Roberts Court: Rhetorical Neutrality and the Perpetuation of Inequality (2022); Post-Racial Federalism: Race, Liberty, and the Democratization of Oppression (forthcoming). He is also an elected member of the American Law Institute. Catherine Fosl is an interdisciplinary scholar of twentieth-century US social justice movements, especially the history of race, gender, and grassroots-level activism in the US South. She has received numerous awards and fellowships for her research and is the author of Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (2006), the definitive biography of civil-rights activist Anne Braden.

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