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Richard?Rothstein?is the author of?THE COLOR OF LAW:?A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.? A Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley).? In addition to his recent book,?The Color of Law,?he is the author of many other articles and books on race and education, which can be found at his web page at the Economic Policy Institute:?http://www.epi.org/people/richard-rothstein/. Previous influential books include?Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Improvement to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, and?Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right.?He welcomes questions and comments at?riroth@epi.org.