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

“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.”

• List of Maps and FiguresIntroductionOne / Fragmenting Citizenship: Municipal Incorporation and AnnexationTwo / Segregating Citizenship: Schools, Safety, and SewersThree / Bulldozing Citizenship: Renewal, Redevelopment, and RelocationFour / Arresting Citizenship: Segregation, Austerity, and Predatory PolicingConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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

“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.”

• List of Maps and FiguresIntroductionOne / Fragmenting Citizenship: Municipal Incorporation and AnnexationTwo / Segregating Citizenship: Schools, Safety, and SewersThree / Bulldozing Citizenship: Renewal, Redevelopment, and RelocationFour / Arresting Citizenship: Segregation, Austerity, and Predatory PolicingConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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

“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.”

• List of Maps and FiguresIntroductionOne / Fragmenting Citizenship: Municipal Incorporation and AnnexationTwo / Segregating Citizenship: Schools, Safety, and SewersThree / Bulldozing Citizenship: Renewal, Redevelopment, and RelocationFour / Arresting Citizenship: Segregation, Austerity, and Predatory PolicingConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex