ARCHITECTURE & MAPPING SEGREGATION IN DC

In the episode, we discuss mapping public housing and the displacement of blacks in the district. We also talked about Northwest One and architecture.

Sarah Jane Shoenfeld is an independent scholar and public historian. She co-directs the project Mapping Segregation in Washington DC, which is documenting the former extent of racially restricted housing in the nation's capital along with other historic mechanisms of segregation and displacement. Sarah's company, Prologue DC, engages in a variety of history projects, including research for exhibitions and films, historic landmark and district nominations, oral histories, and walking tours.

Recent projects include a successful historic landmark nomination for Barry Farm Dwellings—a World War II-era public housing project in Anacostia that is currently slated for redevelopment—and an online tour of African American Civil Rights sites in DC.

Sarah was the lead historian for several DC Neighborhood Heritage Trails and has produced historical essays and other content for the Smithsonian Institution, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and the PBS series American Experience, among others. She received an M.A. in History and Certificate in Public History from Northeastern University, and is a graduate of DC's Wilson High School.

PUBLISHED WORK

"Barry Farm's historic landmark designation was pitted against affordable housing," The Washington Post, Feb. 21, 2020.

“The history and evolution of Anacostia’s Barry Farm,” D.C. Policy Center, July 9, 2019.

"Open Data Meets History: Mapping Segregation in American Cities, Then and Now," Open Cities: Open Data: Collaborative Cities in the Information Era (Palgrave Mamillan, 2019).

"Mapping segregation in D.C.," D.C. Policy Center, April 23, 2019.

"Race and real estate in mid-century D.C.," D.C. Policy Center, April 16, 2019.

Review, Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappucino City, by Derek S. Hyra, Washington History, Spring 2018.

"Don't let development push out low-income residents," The Washington Post, March 23, 2018.

"How segregation shaped DC's northernmost ward," Greater Greater Washington, Sep 14, 2017.

"DC's Comprehensive Plan, a document we use today, preserves the racial segregation of our past," Greater Greater Washington, Jun 13, 2017.

"'A Strictly White Residential Section': The Rise and Demise of Racially Restrictive Covenants in Bloomingdale," Washington History, Spring 2017.

Review, Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital, by Joan Quigley, H-AfroAm, Feb 2017.

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