Category: Race, Place & Space

The Race, Place, and Space series, co-hosted by the Initiative on Cities, BU Arts Initiative, and BU Diversity & Inclusion, focuses on the ways in which racial and ethnic groups access, inhabit, occupy, shape, and are memorialized in urban contexts—as well as the ways their contemporary and historical contributions have been made invisible, disregarded, or denigrated.

Boston’s Chinatown: Community, Power, and Placemaking

Held on Thursday, April 15, 2021 Watch a recording or read a recap below. Recap by Claudia Chiappa On April 15, 2021 the Boston University Initiative on Cities (IOC), BU Arts Initiative, and BU Diversity & Inclusion hosted a virtual discussion focused on the history and legacy of Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood. The conversation was moderated […]

Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life

Held on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021. Watch a recording and read a recap below. Recap by Claudia Chiappa On February 3, 2021, the Boston University Initiative on Cities (IOC) kicked off its Race, Place, and Space series with a discussion featuring Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies Paula Austin. Austin discussed her book Coming […]