Name: Anupama Rao: Spatial Inequality and Urban Revolutions by Raising The Bar
Duration: 40 min 55 s
Description: Professor Rao will discuss the unexpected connections between the urban histories of America and India. She'll focus on the factors that shaped urban space in both countries—spatial segregation, social housing, gender politics, and even influences from blues and jazz culture—and how these forces helped structure possibilities for resistance.

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