{"product_id":"citizen-brown-colin-gordon-9780226760889","title":"Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitizen Brown \u003c\/i\u003euncovers 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, \u003ci\u003eCitizen Brown\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Interactive maps and other companion resources to \u003ci\u003eCitizen Brown \u003c\/i\u003eare available at the book website.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Gordon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022676088X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226760889\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Colin Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042506076415,"sku":"9780226760889","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa92cd49-282e-464a-b0c9-3e58e71e0f85.jpg?v=1684961930","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/citizen-brown-colin-gordon-9780226760889","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}