Podcasts Government Public Affairs and Government Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms

Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms

Published: June 4, 2015, 4:08 p.m.

b'The Ackerman lecture features Professor Richard R. W. Brooks, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law,\\nColumbia University. Prof. Brooks tells the charged, still controversial story of\\nthe rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, and offers rare\\ninsight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, acting with\\npernicious efficacy to codify and perpetuate intolerance. 



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