The UWM Libraries’ Digital Humanities Lab will present a virtual panel discussion on the Mapping Prejudice project on Wednesday, Dec. 2, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The panel will be led by researchers at the University of Minnesota who will discuss the methods used to extract and mine data from historical sources, and visualize the impact of racial housing covenants in Minneapolis and other American cities, including Milwaukee.
Panelists:
- Anne Bonds, associate professor, geography, UWM
- Derek Handley, assistant professor, English, UWM
- Kirsten Delegard, project director, University of Minnesota Libraries
- Ryan Mattke, co-director and project manager, University of Minnesota Libraries
- Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, digital and geospatial director, University of Minnesota
The Mapping Prejudice project is using GIS, optical character recognition and crowdsourcing to build spatial databases of racial covenants for Minneapolis and other American cities. These covenants were used in the 19th and 20th centuries to prevent people of color from owning or occupying property. While now illegal, covenants continue to impact the racial geography of cities across the United States today and undergird many of our contemporary racial disparities. This talk will feature an overview of the methods used to build Mapping Prejudice and how researchers are beginning to use those methods to map and understand the impact of racial covenants in Milwaukee.
Registration is required. To register, click here.
