Thomas started following the work of Wei Ming Dariotis, San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies.
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Graduate Student, American Civilization
Ph.D. Candidate
Thesis Title: Remaking Boston's Chinatown: Race, Place, and Redevelopment in the Postwar Metropolis
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Robert Lee
Matthew Garcia Patrick Malone |
About
My research concentrates on urban inequality in Asian American communities. My dissertation, “Remaking Boston’s Chinatown: Race, Place, and Redevelopment in the Postwar Metropolis,” is a history and cultural analysis of urban redevelopment in Boston’s Chinatown from the 1950s through the 1990s. Using state records, community archives, and oral histories, it analyzes a series of place-based struggles over highway construction, urban renewal, institutional expansion, desegregation, and gentrification with a focus on the spatial practices of residents, workers, business leaders, architects, urban planners, politicians, and community activists, all key actors in the transformation of Boston's Chinatown since World War II.
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