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

Colin Gordon, History, University of Iowa

Gordon is an historian of U.S. public policy, political economy, and urban history. He is the author of Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008), Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America (2003) and New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics, 1920-1935 (1994).

This event is a part of The Political Economy of Racial Inequality, a series of UCSB talks and workshops sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy; and the Policy History Program.

Pre-circulated papers available at www.labor.history.ucsb.edu/