15 10 343 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/ea14cfcd09c0612ece68d494f9e89c27.jpg 03f5125d1058b5fd62b4ab2ca0463c31 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/1618d3a27f75e76c1907860784f710b7.pdf 1c4e9d31a276594693f710e713068a1f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Phoebe West Description An account of the resource This photo was taken at 341 High St. in Charlestown, Boston and the Map is from WorldMap. For the map, I chose to focus on the measure of Income in Boston. This shows something unique about Charlestown in that it shows that while there is a large amount of people who are in the highest categories of income, there are also a large population on the other end of the spectrum. This can be seen as a representation of the gentrification process that is going on. The picture that I took also represents the unique situation that Charlestown is in because the neighborhood is becoming more and more gentrified. This picture is of a door on a strikingly fancy and modern looking row house, with a note that says, "Due to packages being stolen: Please DO NOT LEAVE PACKAGES at the front door,”. This shows that while Charlestown is being gentrified, it is not fully there and still has aspects of its rough, working class past. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/cdec8141e60ebaab49136e0d14d228dd.jpg 82b4cb6f9e57f9c722ea9b613d4c9c73 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/3d234a1ef401246ce02b91255e92f10d.png be72f1b93a418e7b752fbd163f298611 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Antonia Washington Description An account of the resource Map: This map is one which I created after my visit to South Boston. The green plus signs are spots where I saw people wearing Red Sox baseball caps. The notes, which appear here as yellow squares, indicate people I saw wearing apparel from other Boston professional sports teams, namely three people in Patriots hats, a man in a Bruins shirt, and a man in a Celtics hoodie. The yellow line shows the route which I walked on my visit. Photo: This photo shows the side of the building of Al's Liquor Store which I describe in my essay. This business is clearly very proud to be an Irish establishment in a strong Irish neighborhood. What is interesting is directly across the street from Al's, there is an invasion of new, pristine, and identical houses which cut through this image of the rough and tumble, working class Irish Southie. This is an instance when the quintessential Southie and what it could be becoming could be seen side by side, which was very striking. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/b3495cff631f71f3c81319a6e6d3582e.jpg 5c46973d216e0d99a03d520cb4c4875a https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/a92245ba6c24b8e33c5c6758e87fc0f0.jpg f9b78b4bed03393be264acc0f2faf03e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mien Wang Description An account of the resource This photo of East Boston is taken in the middle of the Meridian Street. The right hand side is the west side of Meridian Street which is closer to the low income area while the left hand side is the east side of Meridian Street where all the affluent family resides. As you can see, at the right hand side, there is not much exciting stores while there are myriads of stores at the left hand side. This photograph precisely conveys the geographical segregation of income level in East Boston. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/e42d25ebcd4fe004fb5d2c845e1ad21d.JPG cb6d7088586b358324d29e5e9ae6fb74 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/508865adef2683986a79bd3392dd1b0b.png b9755c5693970100072a105b4d4517ff https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/cb5dc14e07279e6281aaca456fa5e16e.png c666e412f68a8d03925b0952ee54ace4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward Vasquez Description An account of the resource This mosaic hangs outside the entrance to an elementary school in the center of the South End. To me, it represents a child’s idyllic vision of what the South End is and can be. The prominent features of the piece to me are the references to different ethnic groups in different sections, as well as the nature motifs of tress and the sun and the rainbow in the middle. The mentions of different ethnic groups, as well as the various faces, hands, and bodies, suggest the not only the multicultural nature of the South End, but the possibility of cooperation and cohabitation in the neighborhood, as many of the bodies stand alongside those of different colors. The nature motifs also present an idyllic view of the neighborhood—they suggest life and growth, which many would say is the goal of many of the renewal and renovation efforts in the area as of late. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/313fc1114b52f618e62e30ca072fb09c.jpg dcc1216e6d1e924f4f2cc26ea93a36b2 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/b81544650c7038a0ae1ef0b5922c25ea.png b56af2060fbb35ffaf44af564a576284 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lauren Varela Description An account of the resource My photo is of The Cathedral of the Holy Cross. I choose this picture because I have been coming to this church for years and I never knew it was in the South End of Boston. I always thought the church and the mass were so beautiful so I imagined we were in a great part of Boston where most of the community members must be wealthy. However, after my walk and visit to the South End I realized that this is not the case, but it made me love the South End even more. For my map on Social Explorer, I choose to look at the houses that were listed above 1 million dollars. I choose this because since my indicator was nice cars (BMWs, Mercedes, etc.), I thought that these cars would have to most likely correlate to nice homes, and I think my map that I choose shows this correlation. As noted in my paper, all of the nice cars were going to and coming from the side street and as you can see from the map, all of the homes above 1 million dollars seemed to be clustered around these side streets between the main drags. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/a022a9b27a5f861c4559b1b77086fbab.jpg 90fa1933d2342c989efe17db635deb7b https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/d6e0d49ae73c8a98d5d75c9b682c4f3a.jpg e4823b6854519aebb603798cb7d8b740 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bailey Trela Description An account of the resource Two things that were interesting to me as I walked through East Boston were the murals and the ethnic eateries. I only noted a few Chinese or Vietnamese restaurants, and so when I returned from my visit I decided to get a better grasp of the ethnic makeup of the neighborhood. Basically, my map showed a surprisingly low percent population of Asians. Frankly, the figures I found, between zero to fifteen percent of the population in most parts of East Boston, gelled well with the frequency of Chinese or Vietnamese eateries that I witnessed; still, for some reason, I expected them to make up a larger percent of the population. My photo is a mural from the community garden I observed; it shows a can of spray-paint assisting in gardening tasks. It’s a self-conscious critique of graffiti; even the tool of graffiti is contributing to the community, even the graffiti itself is contributing to the community. I thought it showed a clever awareness of the dangers a community might face from its own members, and an equally clever way of combatting these dangers. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/432ebf280838bd2c91889bcd3d87c6ae.jpg 1d3a4b223c00ca8bc578b7d8385c084b https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/ecd0777fc35e25680ebf0b5a8c9ddfcd.jpg 4eb72e27b3992ddbf7cfe8f0b0094654 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aubrey Stoddard Description An account of the resource My picture is of a Visitor's Parking sign on Dorchester Avenue. It captures the segregation between the residents and the visitors in South Boston as well as the lack of tourism in this area (nobody is parked in the visitor's parking spots). Finally, the industrial shop on the right of the sign captures the working-class jobs that are based in South Boston. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/76d24f2441f6d47ce4821496d3e35752.pdf 6f17360f86e2bc04e018978f5791742a https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/d24b7c75ddb440ae0a096c5feed5404d.jpg 93c197a7b06fa1f89fb6b69f34cd9867 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marina Spinelli Description An account of the resource My map, generated by Social Explorer, shows the racial composition of the South End. Each dot represents one individual, and the various colors of the dots indicate the different races. I have included a legend to determine which color represents which race. I have outlined the boundaries of the South End, as well as highlighted Tremont Street and Shawmut Avenue, the main two roads which I explored during my walk. I have also included in the map pinpoints of where I found cigarette packages as litter throughout the neighborhood; this was one indicator that I counted during my neighborhood walk. Each point is labeled either Camel, Winston, or Newport, referring to the brand of the cigarette package. Because there is a racial preference for different cigarette brands, as my paper discusses, this indicator provides insight to the racial composition of the neighborhood as well as the extent to which the neighborhood is racially segregated and/or integrated. My photo is of a Newport brand cigarette package littered on the corner of Shawmut Avenue and Worcester Street. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/bbd02b73cf759fe380e8cb65ccc0261a.JPG b38111aad20d8444b138a34308373176 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/2ee2c45fa4c2e9b7f8d888d324611254.png 847d34fe80eb045801f695b86c30e558 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pauline Ryan Description An account of the resource Location of photo: 62 Flaherty Way, South Boston Title of photo: Cathleen’s dogs Because it was such a beautiful day when I visited South Boston, it was very difficult to decide on a photo. But, ultimately I decided on a photo of Cathleen’s dogs because they sparked such an incredible and informative conversation. Cathleen was a middle-aged Irish woman, who had lived in the D Street Projects her entire life. I was lucky that she was so open to sharing her experiences; without prompting, she touched on many of the major themes we’ve discussed in the course. Perhaps, most interestingly she talked about the 1970s busing crisis and the consequences for South Boston schools today. She talked about the genuine fear the whites in South Boston had of Roxbury and what they had “heard about white girls getting raped over there.” Her aunt, who she described as having the “most promise” in the family, dropped out of high school rather than attend Roxbury High. Even today, Cathleen says that Irish families won’t send their kids to public schools, instead they all attend Catholic schools. If Cathleen had kids, she said she would never send them to public school because they’d be the only white kids and get bullied by the “blacks and Hispanics.” At the end of our conversation as I was thanking her for taking the time to talk to me and saying once more how adorable her dogs were, she laughed and said: “All yuppies love my dogs.” Map: Social Disorder and Crime in South Boston I include the map that I drew on most in my paper: a map created on Boston Research Map showing level of social disorder and crime in South Boston. The map is zoomed so that the frame is almost exclusively South Boston (i.e. no other neighborhood is in the frame). The more red an area, the higher the level of social disorder and crime. Looking at the map, it is evident that the “West Side” of the neighborhood has much higher levels of social disorder and crime than the “East Side.” https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/57dd13e8d30009b601721fba39286567.jpg 9e05db9b9df1283b2d457d3df242bc75 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/71c2e0750bb015d774f436f9c56d7956.png 79e17ec973ddbe07e57e6549d679e008 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Rahill Description An account of the resource My photograph depicts the luxury apartments on the waterfront and part of the first park I visited. Everything in the photograph looks brand new. The pavement has no cracks, the grass is manicured and a deep green, and the apartments are glimmering in the afternoon sun like Beach condos. If someone saw this picture, they would not expect the greater neighborhood to be predominantly mediumlow income hispanic. The view from the balconies is straight across the harbor to downtown Boston, a truly exquisite perspective on the city. The map, taken from the Boston Research Map online tool is the percent of white residents in East Boston, taken from the 2010 census. The map demonstrates how insignificant the white population is in East Boston. The dull, yellow color (015% white) is visible on almost all inland regions. There are only a few pockets of orange, (1540% white) including the area where the photo was taken, which is the large bottom left region. It’s also interesting to compare the percent of white people in East Boston compared to downtown Boston and Charlestown, where almost every region is dark brown. The photograph and the map illustrate how much of anomaly the new apartment development is, but is a sign of what East Boston may become if gentrification continues.