Tag: Asheville
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From DH to Reparations: A Settlement in Asheville, NC
On June 17, 2024, the Asheville Reparations Commissions “voted to approve a settlement for injuries caused by redlining and urban renewal.” This is an incredible result of a project that has gone on, in many shapes and with different foci, for many years. Professor Richard Marciano (now Director of the Advanced Information Collaboratory at the University…
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Measuring the Impact of Urban Renewal: DH that Counts!
This remarkable project on redlining, race, and reparations shows the real world impact that Digital Humanities can have when rooted in community, activism, values—and done with mission and determination. The project began by documenting redlining primarily against Black and brown communities, beginning back in the 1930s with federal housing laws and continuing to the present,…