{"id":2751,"date":"2017-11-13T13:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:43:35","slug":"week-7-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/11\/13\/week-7-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7: Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Im choosing to write about the <\/span>Digital Harlem <\/span><\/a>website that details events occurring within Harlem between 1920 and 1930. Instantly, one would be able to deduce that this decade is best know as the prohibition era based on the type of events that are highlighted: police arrests, church location, nightlife locations, and sporting locations. More importantly, the cultural explosion known as the Harlem Renaissance occurs throughout this period as well; thus, both phenomena have shaped the cultural and social landscape of the area that the website chooses to map. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The website chooses to illustrates two sides to Harlem of this period. One side represents the blight of Harlem, for arrests relating to gambling are illustrated, and the pervasiveness speakeasies and brothels align almost every block contained within the neighborhood. The other side represents Harlem as an incubator for social expression as churches, sporting venues, and nightclubs are illustrated throughout the map. This illustration is done by placing a selection of four categories (as mentioned above) to the right of the map, which instantly captures the eye of a person, and persuades explore prohibition era Harlem. It is only when a viewer chooses use the search engine that they would soon realize that there is a greater selection of categorical places to chose from such as bakeries, barber shops, and beauty salons– it’s important to note that there are a total of 224 beauty salons recorded for the map, yet one would have to physically query for them. <\/span><\/p>\n

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This website is focused on the blight of the prohibition era and that is determined by the fact that the legends tab and the selections of each search category ( To the left of the map: \u201cEvents,\u201d Places,\u201d \u201cSelect a Person\u201d) primarily focus on morbid topics. Both the legend tab and events category highlight mostly events dealing with criminal activity. The \u201cSelect a Person\u201d category highlight the lives of a select group of individuals, which so happen to have their trouble with law enforcement as well. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sources such as the \u201cDistrict Attorney’s Closed Case Files\u201d and the \u201cProbation Department Case Files\u201d show in what direction the research for this website was driven. Furthermore, publications such as <\/span>Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars<\/span><\/a> by Shane White and Co., and “<\/span>Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race and Prostitution in the 1920s<\/span><\/a>,\u201d by Stephen Roberson have used the website to their benefit. Thus, revealing the audience for whom the website is intended for. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Im choosing to write about the Digital Harlem website that details events occurring within Harlem between 1920 and 1930. Instantly,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}