I'm not American but I find this NYC image particularly fascinating. Look at that small patch of red in 'Crown Heights' and surrounded by blue! And China Town is so damn green! hehe. Well, obviously
This is a nice art project. But don't get too carried away with the details people...They show etnicity on RIKERS ISLAND - a prison fer cryin out loud. And yes, there are too many white areas shown. This is bunk.
Hey I have a bridge for sale, interested? It connects Brooklyn to Manhattan...
It looks like areas of Queen are really a melting pot. Woodside/Jackson Heights, etc. There are blended areas of the city, and surrounding areas but yes, there's a lot of culture clusters as well. I'd also love to see the Income version of this map to see how much housing costs are keeping areas red. Plus, some cultures prefer to stay among their own. I'd like to see Europe like this. What do London, Paris, Marsailles, Rome, etc look like?
Have you done other decades? It would be really interesting to see before Ed Koch became mayor who sold the City to developers, who in turn ran all the low income people out of town many of whom were people of color. That was in the 1980s. The Upper West Side was a very different color then!
Hi Eric- I might be interested in using your maps in an indie documentary film I'm making - can you email me at kamis@loudspeakerfilms.com so i can tell you more?
Interesting but its premise is still problematic, the mythology of ‘race’.
No one can scientifically define what ‘race’ means, While scientists use the concept of race to make practical distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, the scientific community feels that the idea of race is often used by the general public[6] in a naïve[7] or simplistic way, erroneously designating wholly discrete types of individuals. Among humans, race has no cladistic significance—all people belong to the same hominid subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.[8][9] Regardless of the extent to which race exists, the word "race" is problematic and may carry negative connotations.[10] Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, involving folk taxonomies[11][12][13] that define essential types of individuals based on perceived sets of traits. Scientists consider biological essentialism obsolete,[14] and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits.[7][15] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(classification_of_humans)
It ain’t science its social stigma. So in other words when we talk of ‘races’ we should say what we mean, that is skin colour.
It doesn’t mean that people’s skin colour doesn’t matter, unfortunately the ‘race’ mythology is perpetrated extensively throughout contemporary culture as an identity and preconceptive tool to attribute behaviours, traits, an ‘other’ etc.
The mapping is super interesting, it just should be labelled ‘skin colour’ not ‘race’.
These are remarkable. I would absolutely love to see one for Wilmington, Delaware. It's a small city but experienced one of the longest race riots in 1968. However, racial segregation in the city is kept relatively secret in local politics. I teach at the University of Delaware and a map like this would be very useful for my students but also for presentations I give on race issues in the city.
OK, I can do one for Wilmington, but I think I should probably wait until the rest of the 2010 census data is released before I do any more based on data that is 10 years out of date.
This is great! How do you prefer to be acknowledged if I use this in a work presentation? I can certainly include your name and URL in the acknowledgement page. Does this suffice?
Hey I think you have a lot of Cypress Hills listed as Woodhaven. Cypress Hills is technically East New York, though it's demographically more look Woodhaven.
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They call me Mike D. 32 months ago | reply
Your work is amazing. I saw your work first on adult swim during a south park episode. So glad I was able to find it because I want to show everyone!
Ed-meister 32 months ago | reply
I'm not American but I find this NYC image particularly fascinating. Look at that small patch of red in 'Crown Heights' and surrounded by blue!
And China Town is so damn green! hehe. Well, obviously
z396z28 31 months ago | reply
This is a nice art project. But don't get too carried away with the details people...They show etnicity on RIKERS ISLAND - a prison fer cryin out loud. And yes, there are too many white areas shown. This is bunk.
Hey I have a bridge for sale, interested? It connects Brooklyn to Manhattan...
gaerielsky 31 months ago | reply
It looks like areas of Queen are really a melting pot. Woodside/Jackson Heights, etc. There are blended areas of the city, and surrounding areas but yes, there's a lot of culture clusters as well. I'd also love to see the Income version of this map to see how much housing costs are keeping areas red. Plus, some cultures prefer to stay among their own. I'd like to see Europe like this. What do London, Paris, Marsailles, Rome, etc look like?
lexyperson 31 months ago | reply
Holy crap! I knew there was a major difference between 96th street and 100th street, but look at that divide! That's astounding.
Eric Fischer 31 months ago | reply
Replaced with new image that represents the shapes of census blocks accurately.
nadjalazansky 31 months ago | reply
Have you done other decades? It would be really interesting to see before Ed Koch became mayor who sold the City to developers, who in turn ran all the low income people out of town many of whom were people of color. That was in the 1980s. The Upper West Side was a very different color then!
Eric Fischer 31 months ago | reply
I haven't done other decades yet, but would like to do a series when the 2010 tabulations are released.
lefouratt 31 months ago | reply
Eric-
Is there a way we can contact you about using one of your images for a project?
Laura
Eric Fischer 31 months ago | reply
I sent you a Flickr Mail message.
LOUDSPEAKER FILMS 31 months ago | reply
Hi Eric-
I might be interested in using your maps in an indie documentary film I'm making - can you email me at kamis@loudspeakerfilms.com so i can tell you more?
0000000001 30 months ago | reply
Interesting but its premise is still problematic, the mythology of ‘race’.
No one can scientifically define what ‘race’ means,
While scientists use the concept of race to make practical distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, the scientific community feels that the idea of race is often used by the general public[6] in a naïve[7] or simplistic way, erroneously designating wholly discrete types of individuals. Among humans, race has no cladistic significance—all people belong to the same hominid subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.[8][9] Regardless of the extent to which race exists, the word "race" is problematic and may carry negative connotations.[10] Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, involving folk taxonomies[11][12][13] that define essential types of individuals based on perceived sets of traits. Scientists consider biological essentialism obsolete,[14] and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits.[7][15]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(classification_of_humans)
It ain’t science its social stigma. So in other words when we talk of ‘races’ we should say what we mean, that is skin colour.
It doesn’t mean that people’s skin colour doesn’t matter, unfortunately the ‘race’ mythology is perpetrated extensively throughout contemporary culture as an identity and preconceptive tool to attribute behaviours, traits, an ‘other’ etc.
The mapping is super interesting, it just should be labelled ‘skin colour’ not ‘race’.
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Ben Fleury-Steiner 27 months ago | reply
These are remarkable. I would absolutely love to see one for Wilmington, Delaware. It's a small city but experienced one of the longest race riots in 1968. However, racial segregation in the city is kept relatively secret in local politics. I teach at the University of Delaware and a map like this would be very useful for my students but also for presentations I give on race issues in the city.
Many thanks for these incredible maps!
Eric Fischer 27 months ago | reply
OK, I can do one for Wilmington, but I think I should probably wait until the rest of the 2010 census data is released before I do any more based on data that is 10 years out of date.
Eric Fischer 26 months ago | reply
Updated for Census 2010:
kidshaman 18 months ago | reply
Were the neighborhood areas added as tags to the photo, manually, or did you upload those somehow?
Eric Fischer 18 months ago | reply
Other people tagged the neighborhoods.
hellofromm 7 months ago | reply
This is great! How do you prefer to be acknowledged if I use this in a work presentation? I can certainly include your name and URL in the acknowledgement page. Does this suffice?
DaveWilson 7 months ago | reply
Great work! I've recently put something similar together for major South African cities, showing the legacy of apartheid on racial divides: datalens.org/post/35117601723/mapping-south-africa-racial...
mattwa1sh 6 months ago | reply
Hey I think you have a lot of Cypress Hills listed as Woodhaven. Cypress Hills is technically East New York, though it's demographically more look Woodhaven.