The Material World of Modern Segregation is a special volume of The Common Reader: A Journal of the Essay.

Edited by Iver Bernstein and Heidi Aronson Kolk, both from Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), the collection features seventeen essays by a range of scholars of the urban experience of race and segregation, including several renowned scholars in the field, and WUSTL faculty from a wide range of disciplines.

The essays offer intensive examinations of overdetermined sites of segregation in the St. Louis region,. Individually and collectively, they advance a new perspective on Black memory work, material sites and the material histories of race, and more broadly, the history and dynamics of segregation.

ACCESSING THE VOLUME

Hard copies of The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson, will be available for purchase at the Washington University bookstore, at local libraries and the Missouri History Museum gift shop , and through The Common Reader.

All the essays can be accessed digitally through The Common Reader starting April 1, 2022. The journal allows limited access to its content, after which a subscription allows unlimited access for a full year. More information can be found here.