Lecture: Beyond White Picket Fences
Evolution of an American Town, with author Catherine Simpson Bueker
Join the Sociology Department in welcoming Emmanuel College Professor of Sociology Catherine Simpson Bueker for a discussion of her book, Beyond White Picket Fences, Evolution of an American Town. This book examines the demographic shifts that have taken place in Wellesley over the last 100 years, with a focus on the ways in which Italian, Jewish, and Chinese residents have entered into and reshaped the community over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries.