# White Supremacy Some people think that institutional racism basically stopped after the passing of the Civil Rights Act. In their minds, the moment President Johnson signed the bill all the racists were like "Whelp, I guess we'll give up our racist institutions now, no use trying to transform them in ways that the law won't be able to reach!" About a hundred years ago, explicit racial segregation was banned, so a lot of towns had this idea to get the same result by making it hard for poor people to live there! The idea was to expand exclusionary zoning, basically making it illegal or really, really hard to build things like apartments. "It's not racist if they're poor!" was the argument, but the end result was still the same. Exclusionary zoning is still rampant, and BIPOC are worse off for it. # Reading List ### Bell Hooks ### The New Jim Crow ### The Color of Law