Reception The book has received many reviews in newspapers, magazines, periodicals, and scientific journals and has been listed on The New York Times Non-Fiction Paperback Best Seller list for non-fiction paperback books over two dozen times. Among others, the book was reviewed by Francesca Russello Ammon, David Oshinsky, Anna Richardson, Terry Gross, and Jacqueline Jones. Reviews have been published in several newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Tampa Bay Times, and The Baltimore Sun, as well as several popular magazines and periodicals, such as Publishers Weekly, Slate Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Kirkus Reviews, Dissent Magazine, and Jacobin. It has also received many reviews in history journals, education journals, and administrative and planning journals. Reviews In The New York Times Book Review for the work, written by David Oshinsky in June 2017, the book is called "a powerful and disturbing history of residential segregation in America". Oshinsky went on to write that "[o]ne of the great strengths of Rothstein's account is the sheer weight of evidence he marshals." After some analysis of the book and a discussion of background information, Oshinsky closes the review by writing that "[w]hile the road forward is far from clear, there is no better history of this troubled journey than The Color of Law." In her November 2017 review, Anna Richardson wrote that the book is "broadly accessible yet painstakingly researched" and notes that "[i]t is the rare book that evokes as much anger and outrage as this one". After a discussion of the book's insights, Richardson closes the review by stating that the book documents in "appalling detail" the need for affirmative action as the "remedy for state-sponsored discrimination of the past". Jacqueline Jones called the book "compelling" in her Fall 2017 review of the book and wrote that it provides "a detailed examination of the ways public entities have colluded with private interests to keep black people out of white neighborhoods". In the June 2019 issue of Jacobin magazine, Richard Walker, a professor emeritus of geography at the University of California — Berkeley, criticized the book for giving outsized blame to federal policy for housing segregation, a conclusion that he said was the result of Rothstein's “dubious scholarship." Wrote Walker, “The fundamental error of this thesis stems from its depiction of racism as a system imposed from