Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality

media release: UW Havens Wright Center hybrid in-person (Room 8417) and online event. If you would like to attend online, you must register in advance.

This event is presented in collaboration with the Department of History and the Department of Urban Planning & Landscape Architecture at UW-Madison.

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