Citizen Brown : race, democracy, and inequality in the St. Louis suburbs / Colin Gordon.
2019
E185.93.M7 G67 2019eb
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Title
Citizen Brown : race, democracy, and inequality in the St. Louis suburbs / Colin Gordon.
Author
Gordon, Colin, 1962- author.
ISBN
9780226647517 (electronic book)
022664751X (electronic book)
9780226647487
022664748X
022664751X (electronic book)
9780226647487
022664748X
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 200 pages) : maps
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E185.93.M7 G67 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8009778/65
Summary
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Fragmenting citizenship: municipal incorporation and annexation
Segregating citizenship: schools, safety, and sewers
Bulldozing citizenship: renewal, redevelopment, and relocation
Arresting citizenship: segregation, austerity, and predatory policing
Conclusion.
Fragmenting citizenship: municipal incorporation and annexation
Segregating citizenship: schools, safety, and sewers
Bulldozing citizenship: renewal, redevelopment, and relocation
Arresting citizenship: segregation, austerity, and predatory policing
Conclusion.