Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs by Colin

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The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the events in Ferguson exposed not only the deep racism of the local police department but also the ways in which decades of public policy effectively segregated people and curtailed citizenship not just in Ferguson but across the St. Louis suburbs.Citizen Brown uncovers half a century of private practices and public policies that resulted in bitter inequality and sustained segregation in Ferguson and beyond. Gordon shows how municipal and school district boundaries were pointedly drawn to contain or exclude African Americans and how local policies and services—especially policing, education, and urban renewal—were weaponized to maintain civic separation. He also makes it clear that the outcry that arose in Ferguson was no impulsive outburst but rather an explosion of pent-up rage against long-standing systems of segregation and inequality—of which a police force that viewed citizens not as subjects to serve and protect but as sources of revenue was only the most immediate example. Worse, Citizen Brown illustrates the fact that though the greater St. Louis area provides some extraordinarily clear examples of fraught racial dynamics, in this it is hardly alone among American cities and regions.Interactive maps and other companion resources to Citizen Brown are available at the book website.

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Colin Gordon is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Figures Introduction One / Fragmenting Citizenship: Municipal Incorporation and Annexation Two / Segregating Citizenship: Schools, Safety, and Sewers Three / Bulldozing Citizenship: Renewal, Redevelopment, and Relocation Four / Arresting Citizenship: Segregation, Austerity, and Predatory Policing Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index

Review

"Citizen Brown provides an important look at how local municipalities can implement a de facto two-tiered system of local citizenship based on racial grounds. . . . I highly recommend the book to anyone who is interested in gaining a better understanding of how racial inequalities can be engrained in local societies."-- "EH.Net""This innovative study is informed by the deep understanding of legal processes and familiarity with St. Louis's unique geography that Gordon showed in his previous book Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008). Citizen Brown also benefits from being grounded in political theory about citizenship and its many meanings."-- "Missouri Historical Review""Citizen Brown arrives at a propitious moment, when many Americans are still trying to make sense of how and why one of the most explosive incidents in American race relations--the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri--occurred not in a center city, where so many of the nation's best-known racial dramas have played out over the last fifty years, but in a suburb. What Gordon accomplishes here is a much needed, much deeper understanding of what happened there, even when Ferguson isn't front and center. Citizen Brown is a pioneering foray into a larger, more complicated consideration of the recent history of race relations in American suburbs."-- "Mark Krasovic, author of The Newark Frontier""Citizen Brown is an important contribution to the literatures on segregation, suburbanization, and local politics. Gordon creates a compelling and well-documented account of the ways in which local governments first refuse to provide services to certain neighborhoods and then use that lack of services as evidence of blight and grounds for slum clearance. He then offers an excellent, structural explanation for Michael Brown's murder that is linked to this same connection between public services and local policy."-- "Jessica Trounstine, author of Segregation by Design"

Review Quote

"This innovative study is informed by the deep understanding of legal processes and familiarity with St. Louis's unique geography that Gordon showed in his previous book Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008). Citizen Brown also benefits from being grounded in political theory about citizenship and its many meanings."

Details ISBN022664748X Author Colin Gordon Pages 216 Year 2019 ISBN-10 022664748X ISBN-13 9780226647487 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2019-09-05 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs Country of Publication United States Short Title Citizen Brown Language English UK Release Date 2019-09-05 AU Release Date 2019-09-05 NZ Release Date 2019-09-05 US Release Date 2019-09-05 Translator Elaine Fantham Edited by Goncalo Perestrelo Birth 1974 Affiliation Former Professor of International Commerical Law, University of Nottingham Position Customer Qualifications Ph.D. Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 305.800977865 Audience General We've got this

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