Author

Books by Richard Rothstein

Richard Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He spent much of his career studying education policy before turning to housing policy and segregation. The Color of Law, published in 2017, grew out of a 2012 research paper and is his most widely read work. He was previously a national education writer for The New York Times and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute. His work has been used in legal briefs and policy proposals at both the federal and local levels.