T-RACES

Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces

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

The residential security maps coded affluent and desirable lending zones green and blue, less affluent and less desirable areas yellow, and zones inhabited by blacks--and so deemed undesirable--with the alarmist, high alert red.

- David Theo Goldberg, Authors' Statement

Screengrabs for this project are pending.

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

Conversation

Reader-created Threads

Technical Specs

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