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Tools for Constructing Historical Narratives: Teaching African American and Latino Histories With GIS Census Maps
Sat, April 14, 8:15 to 9:45am, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor: Third Level, North Junior Ballroom BSession Submission Type: Symposium
Abstract
This symposium brings together a group of collaborating researchers from diverse traditions to examine the use of historical census data in interactive data maps for learning about American history and society. The symposium explores the construct of narrative as a cultural tool for making sense of history, examining G.I.S. census data maps as tools for constructing and contesting historical narratives. The papers examine how participants in public discourse, middle school and college students, and museum visitors used interactive maps of historical U.S. census data to construct narratives about African American, Latino, and immigrant histories. The presenters use a range of methodologies to highlight different aspects of these cultural tools, and their affordances and constraints for constructing historical narratives.
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Do the Data Strike Back? Students’ Presentations of Historical Narratives About Latino Communities Using Geographic Information Systems - Jessica Roberts, University of Illinois at Chicago; Joshua L. Radinsky, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jose W. Melendez, University of Illinois at Chicago
Engaging and Problematizing Narratives of African American Migrations - Michelle Boyd, University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-Census: Designing an Interactive Museum Space to Prompt Negotiated Narratives of Ethnicity, Community, and Identity - Jessica Roberts, University of Illinois at Chicago; Leilah Lyons, University of Illinois at Chicago; Joshua L. Radinsky, University of Illinois at Chicago; Francesco Cafaro, University of Illinois at Chicago
Middle School Students’ Constructions of African American Migration Narratives: Scaffolding Historical Reasoning With Geographic Information System Maps - Joshua L. Radinsky, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lori Butler, University of Illinois at Chicago