Continuing with the theme of \u201cEconomic Racism in Perspective,\u201d we turn in mid-November to the American story of economic discrimination and its persistent effects. Two lectures delivered by BU faculty will focus on the insidious legacy of segregation in American commerce.<\/p>\n
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\u201cObama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Robert A. Margo (BU Department of Economics)<\/p>\n Professor Margo will survey what economic historians know about the evolution of racial (black\/white) differences in economic status (income, wealth, education) from the end of the Civil War to the present. He will argue that, while there has been a narrowing of racial differences in the long run\u2014what economists call \u201cconvergence\u201d\u2014the extent of convergence is considerably less than that predicted by the standard economic model of the transmission of inequality across generations.\u00a0In addition, convergence has been episodic\u2014that is, occurring during specific periods of time\u2014rather than continuous, as the standard model predicts.\u00a0He will argue that the long-run evolution of racial economic differences is better described empirically by a model in which African-Americans constitute a separate economic \u201cnation,\u201d implying an important role for racial segregation and discrimination in the historical narrative.<\/p>\n Robert A. Margo is the former chair of the BU Economics Department and incoming president of the Economic History Association.<\/p>\n \u00a0November 13, 2014 at 7 pm<\/strong> \u201cThe Last Store Standing: Commerce as Force, Symbol and Casualty in the Gentrifying American City\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Japonica Brown-Saracino (BU Department of Sociology)<\/p>\n Drawing on her comparative ethnography of four gentrifying places\u2014two Chicago neighborhoods and two small New England towns\u2014Professor Brown-Saracino will explore the role of commerce in gentrifying neighborhoods, many of which, as part and parcel of gentrification, experience dramatic racial and ethnic turnover paralleling economic transformation. She will highlight the complex and situational symbolic position of commerce in these changing places, from efforts to preserve an \u201cauthentic\u201d Swedish deli in Chicago\u2019s Andersonville neighborhood or to save Provincetown\u2019s traditional fishing industry, to the celebration of the opening of new businesses catering to the gentry that signal neighborhood transformation. From the calls of gentrifiers in Chicago\u2019s Argyle for a pancake house that might replace Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants, to an Iranian storeowner\u2019s tears as her shop was displaced just as Chicago invested in a Swedish-themed streetscape outside her shop door, Brown-Saracino will reveal how residents\u2014new and old, wealthy and poor\u2014use talk of local commercial establishments to promote, bemoan, and forestall gentrification and the myriad social, material, cultural, and political changes it advances.<\/p>\n Japonica Brown-Saracino is an\u00a0Associate Professor in the BU Sociology Department and author of the prize-winning book\u00a0A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity<\/i>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2009).<\/p>\n \u00a0November 20, 2014 at 7 pm<\/strong> Continuing with the theme of \u201cEconomic Racism in Perspective,\u201d we turn in mid-November to the American story of economic discrimination and its persistent effects. Two lectures delivered by BU faculty will focus on the insidious legacy of segregation in American commerce. \u00a0***** \u201cObama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality\u201d Robert A. Margo (BU Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7748,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/economic-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/economic-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/economic-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/economic-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/economic-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/economic-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/economic-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/economic-racism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Florence and Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University<\/strong>
\n 213 Bay State Road<\/strong>
\n Boston, MA 02215<\/strong>
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\n Florence and Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University<\/strong>
\n 213 Bay State Road<\/strong>
\n Boston, MA 02215<\/strong>
\n 617.353.7200<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"