T-RACES

    Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces

    By David Theo Goldberg & Richard Marciano
    Programming by Chien-Yi Hou

    Open Project

    As the maps and accompanying materials make explicit, public and private mandates combined to code urban housing development and the basis of ensuing suburban formation in straightforwardly racially segregationist terms.

    - David Theo Goldberg, Authors' Statement

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    Alternative views of T-RACES project data:

    All info and conversations from this project page
    http://vectors.usc.edu/xml/projects/iraces_v1.xml

    RSS feed of the conversations from this project page
    http://vectors.usc.edu/rss/project.rss.php?project=93

    Video tutorial
    Overview of the T-RACES demo site by project author Richard J Marciano

    Acknowledgments
    This work was made possible with a generous grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services: "T-RACES: Tesbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces", IMLS Award No. LG-05-06-0158.

    The work could not have been completed without the commitment of a small group of extraordinary contributors: Suzy Beemer, Shane Depner, Jennifer Wilkens, and Khai Tang.

    We are grateful also for the helpful input and advice from the project's advisory committee, including George Lipsitz (Professor at the Dept. of Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara -- glipsitz@blackstudies.ucsb.edu), Rosemarie McKeon (Web Developer / Editor with the Indigenous Mapping Network -- rose@indigenousmapping.net), and Jesus Hernandez (Dept. of Sociology, UC Davis -- jchernandez@ucdavis.edu).

    — David Theo Goldberg, University of California Humanities Research Institute & Richard Marciano, SILS / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 6th, 2008