{"id":1814,"date":"2016-11-07T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2016-11-07T13:56:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:56:10","slug":"mapping-project-analysis-digital-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/11\/07\/mapping-project-analysis-digital-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Project Analysis: Digital Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I decided to analyze the\u00a0Digital Harlem<\/a>\u00a0mapping project. This project aims to depict everyday life in New York City’s Harlem area within the years of 1915-1930. It \u00a0has been drawn from legal records, newspapers and other archival and published sources gathered between those times. It aims to focus\u00a0not on black artists and the black middle class, but on the lives of ordinary African New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

The map allows options to view the borders of black settlements during 1920, 1925, and 1930. You are able to filter the view of the map by search categories which encompass events, places, and specific people. Within each of these categories you can narrow down your search by limiting the criteria to options like keyword, dates, charge\/conviction, race, gender, occupation, name, and street address.<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0Digital Harlem<\/a>\u00a0site is examined, it is important to keep in mind what assumptions the underlying data is built on. If one were to initially look at crime data during this time period, the map would almost be completely filled up with data focused on African Americans. However, this kind of scenario might not at all be an accurate representation of what the daily life actually was like for residents of Harlem during this time. Legal records, newspapers, and published sources might all be inherently biased to a perspective that is promoted by police officers, the government, and even the local media of that time. The site loses out on information and data that could have come from the perspective of a local citizen of Harlem at the time for the categories that\u00a0Digital Harlem<\/a>\u00a0site is based off of. Legal records and newspapers show you information based on altercations\/infractions with the dominant class of those times while ignoring simple events which wouldn’t be noteworthy to have been recorded during those times.<\/p>\n

If I were to create an alternate map I would first try to see if I could gather data from a more “ground”-focused approach. I would try to get information from people who had relatives who had lived in the area during that time period to get stories and data for how everyday life typically was for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I decided to analyze the\u00a0Digital Harlem\u00a0mapping project. This project aims to depict everyday life in New York City’s Harlem area within the years of 1915-1930. It \u00a0has been … Continue reading “Mapping Project Analysis: Digital Harlem”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}