To Burn a Fireproof Building: Race and Risk in the 1970s Bronx

Date: 

Thursday, November 18, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Zoom (Registration Required)

HMUI Urban Conversations aim to pair visiting scholars with Harvard faculty or graduate students as respondents. Our goal is to create a space for scholars to share works-in-progress with an interdisciplinary community of urbanists.

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Poster for event

"To Burn a Fireproof Building: Race and Risk in the 1970s Bronx"

Speaker: Bench Ansfield, American Democracy Fellow at Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University 

Respondent: Jacob Anbinder,  PhD candidate in American History at Harvard University 

Chair: Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University