Richard Rothstein
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Sep 24, 2026
Jason MilesHOST
Really, Ta-Nehisi.
Jason MilesHOST
Is that why this man named Richard Rothstein is [laughs] championing your case for reparations, you say?
M. ToussaintPANELIST
Whoa, [laughs] okay.
M. ToussaintPANELIST
Squaring the circle.
Bryan GreeneGUEST
And then as you pointed out, even their hiring me was a recognition of that.
Bryan GreeneGUEST
Richard Rothstein had written The Color of Law, and Richard's a good friend of mine.
Bryan GreeneGUEST
And And he and his daughter have been on this podcast.
Bryan GreeneGUEST
Oh, awesome.
John LienhardHOST
Today, what is 49 from 62? The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them.
John LienhardHOST
A New York Times piece by Richard Rothstein got my attention.
John LienhardHOST
He talks about a battle going on in math education.
John LienhardHOST
Look at a simple second-grade problem, he says.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
And so one of the goals of my book is to make people understand the northern variant.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
If people have read the book by Richard Rothstein called Color of Law, Richard goes into great detail about this.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
And it's as if if you read the two books, it's sort of like they're in conversation.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
One is just this wide discussion of this across the country.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
And so one of the goals of my book is to make people understand the Northern variant.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
If people have read the book by Richard Rothstein called Color of Law, Richard goes into great detail about this.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
And it's as if if you read the two books, it's sort of like they're in conversation.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
One is just this wide range.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
And so one of the g- uh, goals of my book is to make people understand the Northern, uh, variant.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
If people have read the book by Richard Rothstein called Color of Law, Richard, Richard goes into great detail about this, and it's as if, if you read the two books, it's sort of like they're, they're in conversation.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
One is just this wide, uh, uh, discussion of this across the country, and my book zeroes in on Michigan and Detroit.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
So what do we mean by Northern Jim Crow? Well, we had a governmentally imposed policy along with custom, right? That meant that Black folks, and we'll just, I won't, I won't talk as much about employment because I didn't do as much research in that area.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
And so one of the goals of my book is to make people understand the northern variant.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
If people have read the book by Richard Rothstein called Color of Law, Richard goes into great detail about this.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
And it's as if if you read the two books, it's sort of like they're in conversation.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
One is just this wide discussion of this across the country.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
And so one of the g- uh, goals of my book is to make people understand the Northern, uh, variant.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
If people have read the book by Richard Rothstein called Color of Law, Richard, Richard goes into great detail about this, and it's as if, if you read the two books, it's sort of like they're, they're in conversation.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
One is just this wide, uh, uh, discussion of this across the country, and my book zeroes in on Michigan and Detroit.
Michelle AdamsGUEST
So what do we mean by Northern Jim Crow? Well, we had a governmentally imposed policy along with custom, right? That meant that Black folks, and we'll just...
Eric WalshGUEST
So education, job quality, water.
Eric WalshGUEST
Environmental things, if you've ever read Richard Rothstein's book, The Color of Law, he talks about the redlining that happened, especially against African-American, Latino communities.
Eric WalshGUEST
Highways were run through those communities.
Eric WalshGUEST
We now know that that environmental change raised the risk of asthma and other diseases because of the pollutants from pollution.
Laverne CoxGUEST
like TED talk basically about the history of structural racism through the housing lens.
Laverne CoxGUEST
I just read Richard Rothstein's Color Blah.
Laverne CoxGUEST
And after like the 20 minutes, he just, I was like, so what do you think? And he just looks at me and grabs me and starts kissing and we like have sex again.
Don LemonHOST
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