Mapping Inequality: the Relationships between Redlining and Climate Justice

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!! Starting at 6pm MDT (not 7pm as usual).

Join us for our next event with LaDale Winling and Robert K. Nelson to talk about the Relationships between Redlining and Climate Justice.

This presentation will explore correlations between mid-twentieth-century redlining and environmental and health inequities today as a way of documenting and understanding the relationship between racist 20th-century federal policies and contemporary inequalities. It will focus particular attention on Denver.

About the speakers:

Robert K. Nelson is the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab and Head of Digital Engagement in Boatwright Library. He is the editor of American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History, which includes "Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America." American Panorama received the 2019 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History from the American Historical Association and was named a tech innovation by the Chronicle of Higher Education's in 2016; "Mapping Inequality" received Honorable Mention for the 2019 Garfinkel Prize from the American Studies Association's Digital Humanities Caucus. Other digital history projects that Nelson has developed include Mining the Dispatch and a remediated, enhanced version of Charles Paullin's 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. Nelson teaches course related to antislavery and slavery in the United States and about the digital humanities.

LaDale Winling is an associate professor of history and core member of the public history program at Virginia Tech.
His research and teaching explore urban and political history in the United States, especially how space, architecture, and geography shape politics, economic life, and daily experience. His book, Building the Ivory Tower, examined the role of American universities as real estate developers in the twentieth century.
Professor Winling uses spatial data tools in both his print and digital work over the web. With collaborators, in 2016 he launched Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, on the work of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation to map and grade the credit worthiness of neighborhoods in cities across America. In 2018, he launched Electing the House of Representatives, 1840-2016, on Congressional elections. This work has been featured in The Atlantic, the New York Times, on National Public Radio, and other media outlets.