Remaking Boston's Chinatown: Race, Place, and Redevelopment after World War II
Comment: Jim Vrabel, author of A People's History of the New Boston
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.