This book uses a novel social network analysis approach to map and analyze the spread of racially progressive and regressive policies from state to state to capture the political, social, and racial dynamics that have informed racialized policy innovation and diffusion processes since the Civil Rights Movement. In turn, it sheds light on how policy diffusion is a racialized process, how racialized policies diffuse, and how states use policy innovation and diffusion to shape and reshape the racial condition in America.