Redlining maps document the deep history of institutional racism in the United States. They also reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market.
The 2016 electoral map, with its seas of rural red, has served as the basis for a misleading and simplified shorthand for urban and rural life. These maps suggest different approaches.
Introducing our Fall 2019 special section, “Left Paths in Rural America.”
Socialist thought provides us with an imaginative and moral horizon.
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