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

by Colin Gordon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022664748X
• ISBN13: 9780226647487
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"