Event
Race & Culture in Late 20th Century Boston - A Panel Discussion
Authors: David Faflik, University of Rhode Island
Jeffrey Melnick, University of Massachusetts Boston
Comment: Robert W. Widell, Jr., University of Rhode Island
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.
This panel will consider the relationship between race and culture in late twentieth century Boston. David Faflik's work examines the impact of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox on the regional complications of race during the Boston Busing Crisis. Faflik's paper employs the local sports scene surrounding the Red Sox in the 1970s as a framework for understanding race relations in the city in the late twentieth century. Jeffrey Melnick's paper explores Boston’s musical activity in the period marked off by the school desegregation crisis of 1974 through the end of the twentieth century.
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Hybrid Event
The in-person reception starts at 4:30 PM and the seminar will begin at 5:00 PM.
Masks are optional for this event.
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