After some 25 years of federal civil rights legislation, fair housing goals have yet to be achieved for a large segment of America's population as housing & economic barriers continue to be the main cause of racially segregated neighborhoods. Today's housing & economic conditions in many of the nation's urban ghettos & barrios rival the conditions that contributed to the riots of the 1960s. What lessons have we learned from the past? How is our nation coping with the "new" urban crisis of the 1990s? RESIDENTIAL APARTHEID: THE AMERICAN LEGACY is a collection of papers commissioned by the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice to examine fair housing issues & today's urban crisis. Leading experts in the field of urban affairs tackle such subjects as institutional racism; the effects of race & class on residential segregation; discrimination in housing & neighborhoods; the fair housing movement & fair housing laws; discriminatory mortgage lending practices; redlining in Los Angeles; the hypersegregation of African Americans; Latinos' settlement patterns in Houston; governmental policies & their impact on segregation; race & housing in a "New South" city; the role of immigration on housing patterns; & housing mobility & residential quality; & strategies for rebuilding livable cities.