Mapping Prejudice

Mapping Prejudice is a project by a team of scholars and activists at the University of Minnesota. The project maps racial covenants, clauses that were inserted into property deeds to keep people who were not White from buying or occupying homes. 

The mapping page has an animation that show the growth of these covenants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area from 4 in 1910 to over 32,000 in 1963.

Or you can see all of them with their details. The green color does not stand out great again the gray background though.

There are also some static maps showing racial covenants in the area. This one does a good job of showing how they cluster around the Minneapolis city boundaries.

This is an ongoing process and you can volunteer to help find racial covenants in deeds and participate in community mapping sessions.

 

 

Minneapolis Carto Quilt

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) begins its annual meeting in Minneapolis today. One NACIS tradition is the Carto Quilt, a cartographic collaboration. Quilt squares are different views of the host city. Here is this year's Minneapolis Quilt.

Here are a few close-up details. Unfortunately the resolution won't allow for good legibility.

Hopefully someone at the meeting will take higher resolution images. Better yet, maybe NACIS can put readable (and find-able) versions of these on their web pages.

A Compendium of Hand Drawn Goodness

Frome County, Nevada (fake county) - from the Wild West, war game by Wassail Beagles

 The Town of Steaming Rock (fake town) in Frome County, Nevada

Map to the StrikeKing Bowling Alley in Mishor Adumim, an Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem.

Nancy Chandler's Bangkok Map 

Traditional Regions of Tibet - via Tibet Insider

Essaouira, Morocco

101 Dalmatians Map

Maycomb, Alabama Harper Lee's fictional town from To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman

 Sobha City - a Mediterranean themed community outside of Bangalore, India - located about here

Garrison Keillor's "Memory Map" of the Twin Cities - via National Geographic