EPISODE · Jun 4, 2015 · 58 MIN
Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms
from Public Affairs and Government · host sheau.chao25
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.
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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.
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