Learn about ways you can leverage this history into present-day change.
There is no single path to justice.
Mapping Prejudice is making a case for reparations. By the time racial covenants were outlawed, the damage was done. Without strategic action to make amends, the inequities created by these practices will only grow worse. Mapping Prejudice collaborates with community members to identify and map racial covenants. But this data only has meaning if it spurs meaningful change.
Acknowledge and teach the history
White supremacy is anchored in amnesia. White Americans have sought to forget the racist practices that created contemporary racial inequities. Teach this history. Invite people to participate in a collective reckoning around this history. Resist campaigns to obscure the past.
Legislatures are suppressing accurate history from being taught in K-12 classrooms across the United States. Support this curriculum and learn more about the struggle against these actions in your geography.
Advocate for antiracist land use
Covenants were always embedded in a larger set of practices that prevented people who were not White from owning property, getting credit, amassing wealth, and accessing community resources. Learn how purportedly “race neutral” laws and regulations perpetuate racial inequities. Demand change from policymakers and elected officials.
Structural racism can be dismantled. But there are no shortcuts or any single action that will remedy the harm that has been done. Especially for White people, these are practices to be cultivated over the course of a lifetime.