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Podcast: Authentically Detroit
Episode: Data is Not Neutral: Beyond Redlining with Alex B. Hill
Description: This week, Donna and Orlando sat down with Cartographer and founder of Detroitography, Alex B. Hill to discuss how data-driven neighborhood classification aids in the discrimination of Detroiters. Detroitography is a project started by Alex to bring together Detroit cartographers and their work. In 2021, he wrote that although over the past decade, redlining has received increased attention in popular press and across academic disciplines, there’s a larger story of spatial racism before and after redlining. Alex argues that spatial racism is not limited to a single set of maps, but is embedded within institutions. Now...