Tag: Census
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Caribbean New Yorkers
The largest wave of immigrants from the Caribbean came to Harlem during the Harlem renaissance. Indeed, many of the greatest artists, luminaries, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance were Caribbean-born. Claude McKay, Marcus Garvey, and Arturo Schomburg. Almost a quarter of Harlem’s Black population was foreign-born in the 1920s. Earlier, however, in 1880, the distribution…
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1880 – Where Did Women Live?
This fascinating map of the density of women in 1880, shows how Central Harlem housed many more women than East Harlem (the darker the color, the more women per block – data coming from the 1880 census). The answer is partly visible in terms of the buildings built in 1880 above 125th Street in Central…
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Elections and Population Density
With the 2020 elections fast approaching, I wanted to share a fantastic visualization that shows population density. The map is fascinating and allows you to really get a sense of major metropolitan areas and the vast (population) deserts that separate them: In the illustration above you see us, in New York, and the tail of…
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Census, Racial Types, and Time
The Pew Trust has a fascinating visualization of the complicated way in which Americans (and the American census in particular) classified people into racial categories: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/25/the-changing-categories-the-u-s-has-used-to-measure-race/ The census years are aligned across the top, and the inclusion and evolution of categories is reflected in the horizontal colored bands. Note that citizens could only choose their…
