[act-ma] 1/31 THOMAS CHEN - "Making Boston's Chinatown"

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, January 31, 2010
11:00am

Reflections on the Chinese -- There & Here (part 2)
THOMAS CHEN
"Making Boston's Chinatown: Race, Place, and Culture in the Postwar
Metropolis"

Boston's Chinatown has been a place of constant transformation for the past
number of decades. Currently there is an active gentrification campaign
trying to dismantle the Chinese cultural center of New England. We will
discuss the history of Boston's Chinatown as learned through oral history.
We will also discuss the ongoing political and social struggles in
Chinatown, especially those things touching the lives of young people.

Tom is a Ph.D student at Brown University in American Civilization with a
focus on Asian American History and Culture, Comparative Race and Ethnicity,
Urban Studies, and Public Humanities. He works closely with the Asian
American Resource Workshop and was part of a team organizing youth
leadership development with young people in Boston. Tom is also a co-editor
of the forthcoming Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader from
Rutgers University Press.

This forum includes traditional Chinese string music by Laura Wang


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