“America’s Newest Cities,” 2023-2024 exhibit on redlining.

The HRC staff invites you to visit our 2023-2024 exhibit on redlining. “America’s Newest Cities,” is an exhibit that takes the subaltern narrative of inequalities in suburban development, investment of urban renewal, and the lack of investors as a resource to “other” communities. We are indebted to our Gallery Group, which was made up of students, alumni, staff, and even a high school student intern! Our volunteers were tasked with researching BIPOC lived experiences in Bakersfield and Kern County from 1866 to the present. Other topics researched include local Indigenous histories, the local Chinatowns, the development of Oildale, and policing as it relates to race and housing. This semester, the HRC staff also researched and uploaded primary sources to our “Redlining in Bakersfield,” a companion website to the exhibit (hrc.csub.edu/h..., which includes racially restrictive covenants, and information about suburbanization, Eminent Domain, and Buying on Contract. Exhibit hours are Monday-Thursday 8am-10m, Fridays 8am-5pm, Saturdays 11am-5pm, and Sundays 11am-10pm. The exhibit will run from October 2023 and run through August 2024.
This exhibit and program were brought to you by California Humanities.
*Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibit do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.