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Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration, by Tamar Jacoby (The Free Press, 600 pp., $30)

THE civil-rights legislation of the 1960s prohibited segregation and all other racial discrimination by public officials and by private parties. Instead of the full integration of blacks into American society, however, the paradoxical result has been greater racial separation, alienation, and conflict. Through case studies of race relations in New York City, Detroit, and Atlanta, Tamar Jacoby seeks to show us how this came to be.

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Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration, by Tamar Jacoby (The Free Press, 600 pp., $30)

THE civil-rights legislation of the 1960s prohibited segregation and all other racial discrimination by public officials and by private parties. Instead of the full integration of blacks into American society, however, the paradoxical result has been greater racial separation, alienation, and conflict. Through case studies of race relations in New York City, Detroit, and Atlanta, Tamar Jacoby seeks to show us how this came to be.