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staff writer | writing a book about Oakland for | visiting scholar | Mexican, American, Earthseed

Oakland, CA
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  1. Sep 3

    So, if this rate holds steady, Facebook is deleting as many fake accounts in a year as it has total real users. That’s wild.

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    Sep 3

    Something to remember on Labor Day: "The 1946 Oakland General Strike began as 425 mostly women employees working at two department stores went on strike for wage equality..."

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  3. Sep 2

    I had never really bought into the idea of a particular *method* of writing. But I started doing 1-1.5 hour sprints with built-in breaks and ... I have 11k words to show for it in the last 5 days. So... maybe that works for me.

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  4. Sep 2

    Also Urban Studies Jenny Holzer could just borrow lines that were actually used in the past, like UNDER ALL IS LAND

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  5. Sep 2

    It’s really a mystery why homeowners fight new development.

    There's a billboard on College Ave near Rockridge BART that advertises individual $1,500,000 houses. Today, supply & demand is so unbalanced that there aren't any homes left to advertise, so now the it looks like this. It's time we allow more homes to be built.
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  6. Sep 1

    Also, I know there is some academic controversy over how significant HOLC maps really were, but damn if they don't impart the flavor of 1930s racism. Here's the "clarifying remarks" about South Berkeley or what they called the "Negro Piedmont."

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  7. Sep 1

    This was the American state collecting urban data on an "unprecedentedly large scale." These surveys formed the statistical base for (some components of) redlining, mortgage discrimination, and proto-urban renewal plans to bulldoze poor neighborhoods. They're important!

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  8. Sep 1

    This has been the latest episode of VERY COOL SATURDAY NIGHT TWEETS.

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  9. Sep 1

    Tell me there is some dissertation or oral history on the Works Progress Administration's Real Property Surveys in 1934-35-36...

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  10. Sep 1

    Made another push after dinner. The structure of the end of this first section, which had eluded me for so long... is like right... there. But I’m too tired to keep going. 😵😵😵

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  11. Aug 31

    5000 words in on the book today, which connected up many thousands more. I am allllmost out of the archival hole I dug at the beginning of summer. Help.

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  12. Aug 31

    👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

    They said the same thing about longshoremen at first- "low skill", precarious- very high turnover, multiple disconnected sites, etc. Said it would be too hard to organize.
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  13. Aug 31

    This by to overlay census data on HOLC maps is fascinating. For Oakland, it shows how black people were not generally the cause of the redlining, but rather were steered *into* the areas that the government already saw as unworthy of investment.

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  14. Aug 31

    It's kind of amazing that Frederick Babcock, the guy who wrote the FHA Underwriting Manual, cited basically one academic in his earlier book's discussion of residential districts: Harlan Paul Douglass. Here's Douglass on suburbs.

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    Aug 30

    In 1963, a group of activists marched from Berkeley to Sacramento to urge Gov. Brown (Jerry's dad) to ban racial discrimination in private housing (i.e. "whites only" neighborhoods). Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were waiting on the Capitol steps to greet the activists...

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  16. Aug 29

    Several tech leaders want to help reform the criminal justice system. But how? A dive into Slack’s new pilot program:

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  17. Aug 29

    Another too-obscure moment in Mexican-American history.

    Today is the 48th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium & the death of journalist Ruben Salazar. Footage:
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  18. Aug 25

    ... is the new 👀

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  19. Aug 24

    I wonder if the appearance of the first "Like, what the fuck?" in the text of my book is a sign of progress or regression.

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  20. Aug 24

    Latinx journalists of the Bay: there's something for you tonight in Oakland.

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