{"product_id":"canfield-drive-a-history-of-race-and-the-american-city-on-a-street-in-st-louis-9780826223395","title":"Canfield Drive: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis","description":"On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking down Canfield Drive, a residential street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. There, they encountered Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. Moments later, Brown was dead on the street--shot by Wilson at least six times. That evening, a memorial appeared on the pavement where he had fallen. In the days that followed, vigils turned into protests, and protests into an Uprising, as police in riot gear faced off with a grieving, outraged community. For nearly two weeks, Ferguson commanded the nation's attention. The killing of Michael Brown was an outrage and it should not have happened. But Canfield Drive was primed for tragedy long before that fatal encounter because the street was already a place of racial conflict. This was no accident. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanfield Drive: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the deeper history behind the street where Brown died, tracing how race and the built environment have long intersected in St. Louis--from the city's founding to the Ferguson Uprising. The book follows the story of Black space across two centuries: from early Black communities, to the birth of the St. Louis Blues, to the Halcyon days of The Ville, to the destruction of Mill Creek Valley, to the tragedy of Pruitt-Igoe, and to the construction of Canfield Drive. Though \u003ci\u003eCanfield Drive\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive history of St. Louis's Black urban landscape, it is more than just St. Louis's story. \u003ci\u003eCanfield Drive\u003c\/i\u003e details the racial engineering of the American city. Here is the machinery of American segregation laid bare: occupancy covenants, court decisions, racial steering, white flight, public housing, voucher systems, and predatory policing that combine to transform neighborhoods into traps. Here too are the people who fought back, building community against staggering odds and securing civil rights reforms that transformed America's understanding of government's obligations to its citizens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanfield Drive\u003c\/i\u003e provides a powerful lens on the national story of race and the American city and reveals how Michael Brown's death was not just one officer's deadly decision, but the inevitable outcome of America's built environment--a tragedy centuries in the making, on a street designed for violence. This is how a place becomes a powder keg. This is how history erupts into headlines. This is the story behind the story that America couldn't look away from. This is the story of how a street came to matter, and how it came to stand for something far greater than itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Knox Averett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Missouri Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.41w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826223395","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45156157554825,"sku":"9780826223395","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5555c867-8e55-42ad-a280-4b19585ccb16.jpg?v=1768295371","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/canfield-drive-a-history-of-race-and-the-american-city-on-a-street-in-st-louis-9780826223395","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}