Folded Map Project

Tonika Johnson is an artist who created a project showing that people who live at the same address on Chicago's grid system can have vastly different opportunities - even though they might have a lot in common personally.  Her work highlights the way that racism has created segregation and that has affected the way people interact, their opportunities in terms of education, jobs, consumerism, their accumulation of wealth, their perception of government and government services and more.  Additionally, Ms. Johnson is an artist and her work highlights the ways that art can bring people together and bridge gaps.

I had the privilege and honor to work with Ms. Johnson and a team at the

Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Here is her project's webpage.

Especially interesting to sociologists is her page about the institutional resources that are folded into Chicago's grid here.

Here are interviews with map twins from the project.  The interviews are really interesting qualitative data about the effects of racism and segregation.

Here is Tonika's photographic tribute to Englewood, called From the INside

Here is Tonika's interactive site called Belonging in Chicago (work in progress).