Critical Cartography
       
     
Land of Opportunity
       
     
The Los Angeles River and train tracks border Boyle Heights
       
     
Ice Cream Melting
       
     
Titusville
       
     
Birmingham Sky Map
       
     
Coal Blooded
       
     
Don't Redline Me
       
     
1000-1098 20th St, Newport News, Virginia, 23507
       
     
In Search of Blue Sky
       
     
Redefining Redlining
       
     
Redlining Map of Richmond, Virginia
       
     
Critical Cartography
       
     
Critical Cartography

The intertwined histories of real estate redlining, racial segregation, and environmental injustice are embodied in “Residential Security” maps such as the one illustrated above representing Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, produced by the federally supported Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) in 1940. Such documents reveal how political maps can be. However, if they can reinforce environmental racism and inequity, critical cartography pushes back by using maps and other forms of spatial imagination to promote justice, knowledge, and empowerment of disenfranchised communities. This gallery explores examples of critical cartography.

Land of Opportunity
       
     
Land of Opportunity

Connie Zheng, Chinese

2022

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The Los Angeles River and train tracks border Boyle Heights
       
     
The Los Angeles River and train tracks border Boyle Heights

Jane Hahn, American

2022

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Ice Cream Melting
       
     
Ice Cream Melting

Najee Dorsey, American

2019

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Titusville
       
     
Titusville

Celestia Morgan, American

2019

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Birmingham Sky Map
       
     
Birmingham Sky Map

Celestia Morgan, American

2019

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Coal Blooded
       
     
Coal Blooded

Living Together / Living Apart Media, American

2022

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Don't Redline Me
       
     
Don't Redline Me

Tasanee Durrett, American

2020

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1000-1098 20th St, Newport News, Virginia, 23507
       
     
1000-1098 20th St, Newport News, Virginia, 23507

Unknown artist (Photovoice Camera #31), American

ca. 2020

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In Search of Blue Sky
       
     
In Search of Blue Sky

Wendy Wischer, American

2023

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Redefining Redlining
       
     
Redefining Redlining

Amanda Williams, American

2022

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Redlining Map of Richmond, Virginia
       
     
Redlining Map of Richmond, Virginia

Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, American

1937

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