A man reviewing a map of racially restrictive covenants

Resources

Mapping Prejudice has worked with a wide variety of media makers and researchers to tell the stories and explain the significance of racial covenants. Below you'll find news stories, presentations, journal articles and resources for educators.

Making the City of Lakes: Whiteness, Nature, and Urban Development in Minneapolis

Rebecca H. Walker, Hannah Ramer, Kate D. Derickson & Bonnie L. Keeler

Academic Publication
Land Use Policy
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Jim Crow of the North Stories

How are people responding to racist covenants and other forms of segregation?

Video
Reparative Policy
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A Public History of 35W

A community-collaborative oral history and research project on 35W in South Minneapolis.

Text Media
Community Activism
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
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How a Minneapolis public history project is building political will to redress racial housing disparities

Text Media
Community Activism
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
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Mapping Prejudice: The Map Library as a Hub for Community Co-Creation and Social Change

Academic Publication
Community Activism
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"Jim Crow of the North Stories" Almanac Episode feat. Maria Cisneros

Video
Community Activism
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
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Owning Up: Racism and Housing in Minneapolis

Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Covenants and Environmental Justice
History of Racial Covenants
Stories of Resistance
Zoning
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Reckoning with Racial Justice

Minneapolis has a bold plan to tackle racial inequity. Now it has to follow through.

Text Media
Community Activism
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Covenants and Environmental Justice
History of Racial Covenants
Minneapolis Uprising
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Where does COVID-19 risk for the homeless start and where might it end?

COVID-19’s uneven march across humanity demonstrates that homelessness increases vulnerability to infection.

Text Media
Community Activism
Minneapolis Uprising
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Racist Policies and White Violence

How decades of racist policies and "white mob violence" heightened tensions in Minneapolis

Text Media
History of Racial Covenants
Minneapolis Uprising
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Why This Started in Minneapolis

Conditions that led to George Floyd’s death are not unique to Minneapolis and St. Paul. But there’s a reason why the Twin Cities triggered a national uprising.

Text Media
Community Activism
History of Racial Covenants
Minneapolis Uprising
Stories of Resistance
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Jim Crow of the North

This one hour documentary uses the history of racial covenants in Minneapolis to explore the complex history of discriminatory housing policies and their contemporary legacies. This Emmy award-winning film explains why mapping racial covenants is so important.

Documentary
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
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From Awareness to Action

A guide for confronting modern racism in housing, policy, and communities.

Educator Resource
Community Activism
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Prince and the Making of the Minneapolis Mystique

Kirsten Delegard & Michael J Lansing. Middle West Review. 2018.

Academic Publication
History of Racial Covenants
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Long Shadow of Racial Discrimination: Evidence from Housing Covenants of Minneapolis.

Aradhya Sood, William Speagle & Kevin Ehrman-Solberg. SSRN. 2019

Academic Publication
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