DIL Co-Director Richard Marciano’s T-RACES project on Redlining was featured in the recent Vectors Journal (Summer 2012  •  Volume 3, Issue 2) as part of its Memory Issue.

Screenshot from T-RACES

In her editorial introduction, USC’s Tara McPherson writes:“This is an archive with a point of view, moving beyond the ‘neutral’ presentation of data toward an interpretative modality. At a time when many are expressing concern about the need for new directions for the humanities, T-RACES offers up a compelling model for new collaborations between humanities scholars, archivists, and technologists.”

Read the article.

The DIL is working with the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond to build a national digital redlining collection. Read more about our efforts T-RACES.