Mapping the Elusive: Using Network Analysis to Understand Slavery, Debt Relations, and the Emergence of a Free Population in 18th-Century Colonial Havana
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Mapping the Elusive: Using Network Analysis to Understand Slavery, Debt Relations, and the Emergence of a Free Population in 18th-Century Colonial Havana

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Transcripts of notarial records preserved from an endangered colonial archive that documents the selling and pawnship practices involving enslaved people in Havana, Cuba during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Word Embeddings as a Key to the Study of Bias, Race, and Gender in Congress, 1880-2010

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Word embeddings reveal how Congressional language around bias, race, and gender shifted from 1880 to 2010. From 1880 to 1970, “bias” was linked to personal emotion and partisanship; after 1975, it became associated with systemic issues like racism, sexism, and gerrymandering. Vector subtraction techniques show that early references to women emphasized suffrage and labor, while post-1970 discourse focused on reproduction and sexuality, with terms like “unwed,” “contraceptives,” and “clinics.” These changes reflect a broader shift toward identity-based and structural understandings of inequality in political speech.