Noah Gray-Cabey

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Noah Gray-Cabey

Description

The map I created on Social Explorer describes the population in South Boston who are unemployed, with the darker areas being the higher concentrations of unemployment. The area to the left of the map is the South End and Dorchester area, which show much higher rates of unemployment. As you can see from the map, the level of unemployment is not especially high in South Boston, except for the one block extending from West Broadway to West 7th Street and B Street to D Street. I chose to use unemployment rates to analyze the map because it is the closest identifying marker to business that I could find. One can imagine that if shops are going out of business, or if the stores are under staffed and financially unstable, they will not be able to hire any employees, and this may lead to higher unemployment rates in the area. Unemployment also does not consider jobs that will pay under the table and may be illegal, which is why I wanted to use this measure to read the map. In the past the neighborhood has been associated with a criminal image, and if this were still the case, the unemployment rate would reflect that. The picture I chose to use reflects the identifier that I used for my research, and it also shows the deterioration of South Boston’s previous image. The storefront still looks neat, and the only thing that is wrong with the otherwise quite nice signage is the single letter that has fallen off. It seemed to me that it was almost a symbol of how the area still shows some signs of disorder, but on the whole is tidy, welcoming, and moving towards a brighter future.

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Citation

“Noah Gray-Cabey,” USW24, accessed March 29, 2024, https://usworld24.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/166.