Monday, October 27, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1221 Mazur Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born in Flames \u2014 Bench Ansfield on Fire, the Bronx & the American City<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Born in Flames <\/em>is an explosive account of the 1970s arson wave in the Bronx and other U.S. cities\u2014and its lasting legacy. Based on a decade of research, Ansfield\u2019s book introduces the term “brownlining” to describe destructive insurance practices targeting poor communities of color, as FIRE industries\u2014finance, insurance, and real estate\u2014profoundly reshaped Black and Brown neighborhoods for profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Join Dr. Bench Ansfield<\/a>, Assistant Professor of History and Honors-Affiliated Faculty<\/strong>, and Tamar Sarai Davis, Ph.D. Student in History, for a riveting presentation and discussion of Born in Flames<\/a>, published August 19, 2025, by W.W. Norton & Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PS – Honors has a few copies of Bench’s book if you’d like to borrow one! It’s GREAT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday, October 27, 2025 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm 1221 Mazur Hall Born in Flames \u2014 Bench Ansfield on Fire, the Bronx & the American City Born in Flames is an explosive account of the 1970s arson wave in the Bronx and other U.S. cities\u2014and its lasting legacy. Based on a decade of research, Ansfield\u2019s book…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36699,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-honorsnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/templehonors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}