Civil Rights in Metropolitan America

:This paper focuses on three areas of civil rights policy: housing, education, and employment. The authors describe the current state of discrimination and/or segregation and analyze their costs, diagnose past failures of public policies, and propose new strategies. Both antidiscrimination and prointegration policies are recommended. The authors argue that one cannot proceed effectively without the other. They show how interconnections between the housing, education, and employment components form a racist metropolitan structure that exacts high social costs and must be attacked with a comprehensive civil rights strategy.