How Black Cartographers Put Racism On The Map Of America
Mapping is part of the broader Black creative tradition and political struggle. Over the centuries, African Americans developed “way-finding” aids, including a Jim Crow-era travel guide, to help them navigate a racially hostile landscape and created visual works that affirmed the value of Black life. The Black sociologist and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois produced maps for the 1900 […]