Please join us for the next free webinar co-hosted by MAGIRT and WAML. It is scheduled for Friday, October 23rd at 2pm EDT/11am PDT.
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Our speaker will be Ryan Mattke of the University of Minnesota.
Abstract
Mapping Prejudice is mobilizing people of all ages and backgrounds to map racial covenants. Racial covenants are legal clauses in property deeds that barred people who were not white from buying or even occupying certain parcels of land. The project has developed an innovative methodology to map these covenants while catalyzing community conversations. The result is a digital, interactive map. The process of making that map ‒ and the dataset that undergirds it ‒ has proven a powerful vehicle for social change. Those who contribute to the map are forced to confront structural racism. Covenants are irrefutable examples of racially discriminatory practices. Engagement with these documents drives participants to identify systems-level solutions to contemporary housing problems. In addition to this mobilization, the map and the dataset are invaluable resources for policymakers and researchers who want to demonstrate how structural racism perpetuates inequalities. This talk will describe the project and its methods, cartographic and otherwise, and the social progress made, so far, toward a more honest future.
About the Speaker
Ryan Mattke is the Map & Geospatial Information Librarian and Head of the John R. Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota, as well as Adjunct Faculty in the Masters of Geographic Information Science program, where he teaches a graduate class on Spatial Digital Humanities. In addition, he is the Project Lead for the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project and one of the co-founders of the Mapping Prejudice Project.
Learn more about the Mapping Prejudice project at its website: https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/
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