{"id":1790248,"date":"2021-02-25T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790248"},"modified":"2021-02-25T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:52:01","slug":"how-black-cartographers-have-mapped-racism-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/how-black-cartographers-have-mapped-racism-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"How Black Cartographers Have Mapped Racism in America"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Library of Congress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Writing at The Conversation<\/em><\/a>, geographers Derek Alderman and Joshua Inwood explore African American examples of \u201ccounter-mapping<\/a>,\u201d from maps made by the Black Panthers proposing new police districts to modern interactive maps of lynchings<\/a> and police violence<\/a>. \u201cBlack Americans were among the earliest purveyors of counter-mapping, deploying this alternative cartography to serve a variety of needs a century ago.\u201d\u00a0[Osher<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously: \u2018Counter-Mapping\u2019 the Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing at The Conversation, geographers Derek Alderman and Joshua Inwood explore African American examples of \u201ccounter-mapping,\u201d from maps made by the Black Panthers proposing new police districts to modern interactive maps of lynchings and police… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[363],"tags":[1456,870,158],"class_list":["post-1790248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-human-geography","tag-police","tag-racism","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789144,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/08\/mapping-the-monuments-of-st-louis\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790248,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Monuments of St. Louis","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 August 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"In the summer of 2019, a research project spearheaded by Monument Lab asked St. Louis residents and visitors to draw personal maps of the city\u2019s monuments and important sites. \u201cSome maps celebrate famous sites like the St. Louis Zoo and the statue of St. Louis himself atop Art Hill in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"How would you map the monuments of St. Louis?","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-louis-monument-lab-1024x799.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-louis-monument-lab-1024x799.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-louis-monument-lab-1024x799.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-louis-monument-lab-1024x799.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5199,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/counter-mapping-the-amazon\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790248,"position":1},"title":"‘Counter-Mapping’ the Amazon","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Conversation\u00a0has a piece on how indigenous peoples in the Amazon are using \"counter-mapping\" to reclaim not only their ancestral lands, but as a way to counter the colonial process of mapmaking itself. Maps have always been part of the imposition of power over colonised peoples. While map-making might be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Human Geography"","block_context":{"text":"Human Geography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/human-geography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fritz-amazon-1024x762.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fritz-amazon-1024x762.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fritz-amazon-1024x762.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fritz-amazon-1024x762.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1788786,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/a-u-s-army-film-from-1971-mapping-a-better-tomorrow\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790248,"position":2},"title":"A U.S. Army Film from 1971: ‘Mapping a Better Tomorrow’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 April 2020","format":"video","excerpt":"\u201cMapping a Better Tomorrow\u201d is a 30-minute film produced in 1971 to explain the work of the U.S. Army Topographic Command (TOPOCOM). After explaining maps from first principles, it covers the state of the art in terms of cartography, computer mapping, photogrammetry and surveying circa 1971, including the production of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1789539,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/mapping-an-atlantic-world-circa-1500\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790248,"position":3},"title":"Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Out tomorrow from Johns Hopkins University Press, Alida C. Metcalf\u2019s\u00a0Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 explores how sixteenth-century European maps conceptualized a new, Atlantic-centred world. From the publisher: \u201cMetcalf explains why Renaissance cosmographers first incorporated sailing charts into their maps and began to reject classical models for mapping the world.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mappping-an-atlantic-world-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1791600,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/08\/a-project-to-restore-a-19th-century-treatise-on-hand-drawn-mapping\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790248,"position":4},"title":"A Project to Restore a 19th-Century Treatise on Hand-drawn Mapping","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 August 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"\u201cI have a new mapping project on Kickstarter,\u201d writes our friend Alejandro Polanco. \u201cThis time it is about recovering some exciting hand-drawn maps by a forgotten craftsman from the 19th century.\u201d This is Alejandro\u2019s second project to digitally recover a 19th-century illustrated book; this time his target is an 1890\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alpoma-art-of-hand-drawn-maps.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1786532,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/scotland-defending-the-nation\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790248,"position":5},"title":"Scotland: Defending the Nation","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"In Scotland: Defending the Nation (Birlinn, 4 October), Carolyn Anderson and Christopher Fleet \"explore the extraordinarily rich legacy of Scottish military mapping, including fortification plans, reconnaissance mapping, battle plans, plans of military roads and routeways, tactical maps, plans of mines, enemy maps showing targets, as well as plans showing the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/scotland-defending-nation-296x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790256,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790248\/revisions\/1790256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}