Boston University: Economic Racism Series - "The Last Store Standing: Commerce as Force, Symbol and Casualty in the Gentrifying American City"

Date: 

Thursday, November 20, 2014, 7:00pm

Location: 

Florence and Chafetz Hillel House, 213 Bay State Road, Boston MA 02215

Nov 20, 7 pm: BU Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino will speak on the effects of gentrification on retail stores in Chicago and Provincetown in a lecture titled The Last Store Standing: Commerce as Force, Symbol and Casualty in the Gentrifying American City.

About the series:
All of these events will take place at the Florence and Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University.

 We hope that you will join our conversation as we make use of the German past and the American present to reflect together on the insidious legacies of racism in commerce.

 If you have any questions, call 617.353.8096 or write to erp2014@bu.edu.