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Mapping suspicion

The New York Times recently posted an article online showing some maps made in 1919, identifying areas of the city by ethnic or racial concentration. No attempt was made to disguise this as a geographic map of scholarly interest; this was commissioned by a legislative body for the sole purpose of identifying and rooting out “organizations and individuals suspected of being socialists, communists or anarchists”. The idea of singling out immigrant groups as “un-American” and vaguely threatening is apparently nothing new, reinforcing the idea that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

(via dendroica)

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    #Immigrant segregation. #history

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    really shock someone? has anyone over at...new york times ever read an american history...

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