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

    Project Credits

    David Theo Goldberg   goldberg@uci.edu | www.uchri.org
    Author
    Director of the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. DTG is the co-founder of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences Advanced Collaboratory, www.hastac.org) and co-administers the Macarthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition (www.dmlcompetition. net). He has published widely on race and racism, on social and political theory, on postcolonialism, on gender studies, and on technological trends in the humanities. He serves on the board of VECTORS, among numerous other journals and organizations.

    Richard Marciano   richard_marciano@unc.edu | http://salt.unc.edu
    Author
    Richard Marciano is Director of the Sustainable Archives and Library Technologies (SALT) laboratory at the School of Library and Information Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also Chief Scientist for Persistent Archives and Digital Preservation at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).

    He holds degrees in Avionics and Electrical Engineering (National School of Civil Aviation, Toulouse, France; M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, and as a Postdoc in Computational Geography.

    Chien-Yi Hou   chienyi@unc.edu | http://salt.unc.edu
    Developer
    Chien-Yi Hou is a research scientist specializing in the development of digital library and preservation archives software. He works in the Sustainable Archives and Library Technologies lab at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.