Dr. Megan Asaka, associate professor of history, University of California, Riverside and author of Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure and the Making of a Pacific Coast City will present her research at 4:30 p.m. on April 4 in Todd Hall Addition 276. Her talk, “The Dividing Line: Race and Segregation in Early Seattle” will examine the creation of a geographical line in the city, dividing north and south, and white and non-white. This segregation began at the inception of white settlement when founders pushed the Duwamish peoples to the southern part of the city and maintained a “residence district” in the northern part for white families. The efforts of local authorities in the city to contain its multiracial population shaped a geography of inequality that persists, as is evident in the social and spatial dynamics in Seattle today.
