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LOCAL HISTORY PROGRAM Mapping Prejudice: Tracing the History of Racist Real Estate Covenants in Minneapolis

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 7:00-8:00 p.m.

Minneapolis Central Library, Doty Board Room (2nd Floor)

Through much of the 20th century, real estate deeds and sales practices denied African-Americans and other minorities from residential areas in many parts of Minneapolis. This was a common practice throughout the United States and is a principal factor in wealth disparities by race. Researchers from Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota have compiled a large record of information tracing this practice. This presentation will describe their findings and the profound impact it had and continues to have on our society.

Mapping Prejudice is part of a broader effort to examine the complex legacies of racist housing policies, inspired by groundbreaking work in other cities that show how digital tools can illuminate structural racism and transform our understanding of the past. Volunteers are needed to help with the project.

This presentation is co-sponsored by Minnesota’s  Black Community Project and Hennepin County Library.

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Homocore 1991, issue #7

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Olde Wyrds

I’ve been looking at old words recently, words that are lost to us now, or have taken on new, fictionalized meanings.

Take gramarye for example, from the French word for “grammar.” A way to separate the learned from the vulgar. In Jamieson’s An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language and Supplement, he quotes Bishop Percy in suggesting that in dark and ignorant times, those who had attained a much higher degree of learning in literature or science could be seen as conjurers or magicians. In a time when all the words an average person in Europe might see in the lifetime would not add up to the total words in the Sunday NY Times, certain words might sound so unfamiliar that they could only come from the extramundane. Distrust of intelligence, resentment. A way to marginalize and drive out those of a higher class.

Another interesting word is incubus. A demon in the shape of a man who has carnal knowledge of another in their sleep (let’s be fair--both men and woman can be visited by incubi). It could be that demons fucked us in our sleep. But who isn’t a demon, but the man you spotted across the bar who smiled at you and that’s it, or the man you met briefly in an anonymous basement apartment who vanished after your twenty minutes were up, but you couldn’t stop thinking about him all night, and he haunted your dreams, all night long, slide along your body, fought beside you in your dreams, made you wake up wet and stiff to piss in the sink, he could not be shaken, and by dawn you had sweated through your sheets? You do not have to believe in the manifest reality of demons to believe in incubi. 

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I never get tired of seeing corner markets spilling out into the street in Brooklyn. (at Downtown Brooklyn)

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Shuffling stuff around the office, I overturned a notepad and saw this, written I don’t know how long ago, only seen now, and my heart suddenly broke in two all over again.

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38. (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)

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Patrick Angus 1953–1992, American realist artist Patrick Angus produced keenly observed and compassionate depictions of the 1980s gay demimonde. His work captures, with sympathy, understanding, and wit, the longing and loneliness of many urban gay men of the era. Visual Aids for more info. ~ Galerie Fuchs / Artists Patrick Angus

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Irresistible trail. At Buffalo Gap Grasslands, South Dakota.