Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality
“Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality”
Colin Gordon (University of Iowa)
Colin Gordon is Professor and Chair of History at the University of Iowa. He is the author of
Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs (University of Chicago Press, 2019);
Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008);
Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2003), and
New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics, 1920-1935 (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and most recently
Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023). He has written for the
Nation,
In these Times,
Jacobin, and
Dissent (where he is a regular contributor). His digital projects include online companions to
Patchwork Apartheid,
Citizen Brown,
Mapping Decline; the data-visualization project Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality (Institute for Policy Studies, 2013); and public history on the history of racial segregation in Iowa counties, and in St. Louis
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This event is presented in collaboration with the
Department of African American Studies, the
Department of History, and the
Department of Urban Planning & Landscape Architecture at UW–Madison.
