Introduction
Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs (University of Chicago Press, 2019) explores the experience of African Americans in St. Louis County by examining patterns of municipal incorporation and annexation (much of it in service of racial segregation), the starkly uneven provision of local services (schools, water and sewers, public safety), local approaches to urban renewal (which pointedly “blighted” and relocated African-American neighborhoods), and the potent combination of racial transition and fiscal austerity that led to the death of Michael Brown. This site is a web companion to the print version. It includes interactive maps, historical maps and photographs, data visualizations, sound clips, video clips, and sources and resources. The site can be navigated by using the Table of Contents in the upper left, or by following the button below to the next page.
