CULTURETECHLENSThe Society Record — How Black Chicago Lives, on the Record
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Society is the lane of distributions and rituals: who gets the sunlight and who gets the heat, what a cookout actually does, how Sunday is organized — and, new with this package, what the data say about food and housing insecurity, tract by tract.
The research briefs — Society (SOC)
- Who Gets the Sunlight — Who gets the sunlight when the clocks change — and who decides?
- Who Gets the Heat — How is summer heat — shade, tree canopy, air conditioning, and cooling access — distributed across Black Chicago, and who decides?
The research briefs — Everyday Life (LIFE)
- Saturday at the Record Store — "What can evidence about record shopping reveal about Black everyday cultural life?" This is a LIFE-domain question about lived experience: Saturday routines, browsing and listening, encounters…
- Sunday in Black Chicago — How did churches, meals, clothing, music, and family routines intersect?
- The Family Reunion as Cultural Infrastructure — What social and historical functions does the reunion perform?
- The Cookout as Institution — What social and historical functions does the cookout perform in Black Chicago life — kinship, reunion, memory, mutual aid, and the politics of the plate?
The research briefs — Health (HEALTH)
- The Table and the Roof: Food and Housing Insecurity in Chicago — the first Health brief — 791 census tracts, computed from CDC PLACES and the ACS: the insecurity gradient steps at the majority line. Published in full with v60.
Read the editorials
- Who Gets the Sunlight — America's clock fight, from brief SOC-000001.
- Who Gets the Heat: Shade Is Policy — the editorial from brief SOC-000002 — canopy, cooling centers, and who decides.
The research files
- The Community Scorecard — the research file behind the lane.
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