Beyond White Picket Fences: How Established Residents Experience Increasing Diversity

Wellesley, Massachusetts is a historically White Anglo-Saxon Protestant community that has experienced immigration and increased diversity in recent decades. Sociologist Catherine Bueker will examine how longtime White residents and mainstream institutions of Wellesley, MA, such as schools and religious organizations, view and experience increasing diversity. She will conduct interviews and participant observations as well as analyze archival data from the local newspaper for her study.