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

04/06/2015 58 min

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Episode Synopsis

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