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Mapping Prejudice is a co-creative digital mapping project that aims to expose the legacies of racially restrictive housing covenants. Racial covenants were written into property deeds to bar anyone who was non-white from buying or occupying certain properties. Though these covenants are no longer legal, their legacies are still present in wealth disparities and other systemic issues that currently plague the United States. Mapping Prejudice works with community members and organizations across the United States to create visualizations of this hidden history so we can better understand the legacies of racism and discriminatory policies across the United States.

Subjects or Themes

United States, Race and Discrimination

Project Language(s)

English

Time Period

Geographic Location

Project Categories

Content Type

Mapping, Text, Images, Crowdsourcing

Target Audience(s)

Creators

Kirsten Delegard, Ryan Mattke, Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, Penny Petersen, Maggie Mills

Year(s)

2016 - Present

Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location

University of Minnesota - John R. Borchert Map Library

Software Employed

  • Drupal
  • ArcGIS, Python, Pandas, OpenCV, Tesseract OCR Engine, Mapbox, Zooniverse Project Builder, Carto, Github, Adobe Illustrator, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

Labor and Support

Institutional administrative support from the Minnesota libraries allows for ongoing co-creative community praxis sourced from volunteers.

Project Cost

Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement

St. Catherine University: “Welcoming the Dear Neighbor?” The CREATE Initiative at the University of Minnesota The Heritage Studies and Public History Program in the College of Design, University of Minnesota City of Minneapolis - Community Planning & Economic Development Department Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors St. Paul Area Association of Realtors The Irwin Andrew Porter foundation The St. Paul and Minnesota Foundation The Fourth Generation Fund at the Minneapolis Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities The CREATE Initiative (University of Minnesota) Liberal Arts Technology and Innovation Services (University of Minnesota)