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About Beyond White Picket Fences: Evolution of an American Town

"Wellesley, Massachusetts, has long been considered the archetypal New England WASP community. However, as new groups moved in over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Wellesley has undergone slow but consistent change, transforming into a more demographically diverse and multilayered town. In Beyond White Picket Fences, sociologist Catherine Simpson Bueker explores how Wellesley has been shaped—and continues to be shaped—by its diversity." (Further information on Dr. Bueker's book.)

Dr. Bueker is a professor of sociology, Emmanuel College.