Second Roadmap Stop
Geography is Destiny!
Thursday January 28, 12 - 1:30 PM via Zoom
At this second Roadmap stop, we will consider the historical and current relationship between geography and racism, inequities and health risk and outcomes in New Haven and beyond.
We’ll discuss the film “The Hill” and hear from the filmmaker and comments by our expert invited panelists:
- Lisa Molomot, Filmmaker, The Hill was her 2013 directing debut. She currently teaches at the School of Theatre, Film and Television, the Human Rights Practice Graduate Program and the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona
- Dr. Danya Keene, Associate Professor of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health.
- Dr. Frank Snowden, the Andrew Downey Orrick Emeritus Professor of History and History of Medicine at Yale.
Using a Q&A format, we will then review local history to ground our understanding of past and current issues of residential segregation and the health effects that have been made even more visible by COVID.
In preparation for the session, please watch the documentary beforehand! Runtime is exactly 1 hour and available free of charge Panopto (Yale Login required) or Vimeo
Click this link to download the mp4 video of the Second Roadmap Stop from Jan. 28, 2021
Readings
- Rae D. Chapter 8: Race, Place, and Emergence of Spatial Hierarchy. In: Rae D., ed. The City Urbanism and its End. 5th ed. Yale University Press; 2003:254-286.
On the history of HOLC (Home Owners' Loan Corporation), redlining, and "urban renewal" in New Haven to provide important context to the discussion - Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining
For further interest, please explore the linked visual document, which reconstructs redlining in 140 cities in the US, including New Haven in the 1937 and and documents resultant current social and health vulnerability scores, 80 years later. To explore: Click on either the map of the rectangles on the chart to select an area in the past or today to view more details. At the top will appear selections from the HOLC area description for the selected area showing the HOLC's description of the area's population and character—very often clearly showing their racist perspectives - Data Haven - Yale Mapping of COVID Epidemic
Detailed site of epidemiologic, historic, and current sociodemographic and inequirty data in Connecticut with a focus on New Haven and surrounding areas. Look specifically at: Abraham, M., Seaberry, C., Ankrah, J., et al (2019). Greater New Haven Community Index 2019. New Haven, CT: DataHaven. Available at ctdatahaven.org. © 2019 DataHaven ISBN 978-1-7340851-1-2 (paperback) - Mapping the New Politics of Care
Yale and Columbia collaboration-visual journey through the inequities and vulnerabilities that define the American landscape, using different definitions to describe communities at risk, down to the county level. Includes Centers for Disease Control’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI*) - NYC Health - Covid-19 Data
- Bailey ZD, Feldman JM, Bassett MT. How Structural Racism Works - Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities. N Engl J Med. 2020 Dec 16.
- Richard Rothstein, The Color of the Law: a Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America (2017)
- Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (2013)
Invitation
