Colin Gordon teaches history at the University of Iowa, and is the author of Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs and Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City.
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Colin Gordon teaches history at the University of Iowa, and is the author of Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs and Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City.
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