{"id":117,"date":"2013-10-29T16:57:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T21:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/digital-computational-studies\/?p=117"},"modified":"2013-10-29T16:57:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T21:57:03","slug":"allan-parnells-talk-on-local-political-geography-and-institutionalized-racial-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/digital-computational-studies\/allan-parnells-talk-on-local-political-geography-and-institutionalized-racial-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Parnell&#8217;s Talk on &#8220;Local Political Geography and Institutionalized Racial Inequality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the <a href=\"www.bowdoin.edu\/socanthro\/?\" target=\"_blank\">Sociology &amp; Anthropology Department at Bowdoin <\/a>sponsored a pretty fantastic talk by Allan Parnell of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedargroveinst.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities<\/a>, a nonprofit social science research firm.\u00a0Demographer Dr. Allan Parnell discussed the work Cedar Grove Institute (CGI) has done challenging social inequities using GIS &amp; census data. CGI does research &amp; analyses to support legal cases involving civil rights, predatory lending, school segregation, &amp; institutionalized discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Parnell&#8217;s talk, &#8220;Local Political Geography and Institutionalized Racial Inequality,&#8221; reviewed a series of legal cases in which his and his team&#8217;s use of geographical information systems (GIS) and other multi-disciplinary technical analysis of public data to support issues of economic development, fair housing, education, environmental justice, equitable land use, and others. For a detailed summary, check out Jen Jack Gieseking&#8217;s Storify record of the event below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\">\n<p>http:\/\/storify.com\/jgieseking\/allan-parnell-s-local-political-geography-and-inst<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demographer Dr. Allan Parnell discussed the work Cedar Grove Institute (CGI) has done challenging social inequities using GIS &amp; census data. CGI does research &amp; analyses to support legal cases involving civil rights, predatory lending, school segregation, &amp; institutionalized discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[11,13,10,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-digital-computational-studies","7":"category-event","8":"tag-common-good","9":"tag-geoweb","10":"tag-gis","11":"tag-race-and-racism","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}