Mapping Prejudice

Mapping Prejudice

Presented by the University of Minnesota Retirees Association (UMRA).

How can you see prejudice on a map of a city? Geographers, historians, and thousands of citizen volunteers are making it possible to visualize the hidden history of race and privilege in the Twin Cities landscapes that we love and travel through each day.

The Mapping Prejudice Project, based in the Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota, is mapping racial covenants in the Twin Cities. Racial covenants are short clauses of text embedded into property deeds that barred non-whites from buying or occupying a parcel of land. Although these clauses were made illegal by the 1968 Fair Housing Act, their legacy continues today in the Twin Cities, which has some of the largest racial disparities in the country.

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