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Immigration and Urban History

Remaking Boston's Chinatown: Race, Place, and Redevelopment after World War II

Thomas Chen, Brown University
Comment: Jim Vrabel, author of A People's History of the New Boston
Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 5:15PM - 7:30PM

This paper examines how Boston’s Chinese American community confronted urban change in the decades after World War II. Focusing on contests over Chinatown space and place, it explores how postwar formations of Chinese American identity and community were intertwined with the urban transformation that Boston and other American cities underwent in this period.