Tag: Redlining

Pair HOLC Maps with FHA Maps to Tell a More Complete Story

.Reading time 58 minutes.

By Lawrence T. Brown In his critical essay “The Tyranny of the Map: Rethinking Redlining,” historian Robert Gioielli asserted that many people have developed a distorted view of the Residential Security Maps drafted by the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC). Gioielli warned that HOLC maps often obscure the role of local actors in drafting and enforcing […]

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The Tyranny of the Map: Rethinking Redlining 

.Reading time 66 minutes.

By Robert Gioielli Teaching the history of racism in America can be a difficult thing. Not because students deny it, but because it is something that is so ubiquitous, so all encompassing, that many (particularly white) students let the idea roll over and past them. They know racism existed in the past and people did […]

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