Professor Colin Gordon

Colin Gordon is Professor of History at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality (Institute for Policy Studies, 2013); 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). He has written for The Nation, In these Times, Z Magazine, Atlantic Cities, and Dissent (where he is a regular contributor). Colin Gordon received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. His web page is www.colin-gordon.org

Ferguson, One Year Later

To understand Ferguson—the place itself, the events that transpired there in the last year, and its resonance as a metaphor for twenty-first century race relations—one need go no further than the Department of Justice’s devastating Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, released last March.   While the report’s exploration of systematic racial bias in the Ferguson […]