Jessica Trounstine is associate professor of political science at University of California, Merced. She is the author of Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers, which won the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Prize for Best Book on Urban Politics.
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Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their... SEE MORE