Controversial Cartography
- Posted by: Patrick James
- on August 18, 2008 at 2:18 pm
We hope you’ve had a moment or two to click your way through our interactive map feature, Wanderlust. That in mind, we just noticed that Mental Floss posted an awesome, anti-colonial rejoinder to it back on Friday (though it wasn’t necessarily a direct response). Its controversial maps—the one with only 38 states, the one where Greenland is the same size as Africa, and the one where the Chinese got here first—reveal the ways that design can either uphold or challenge a racist narrative, as well as the ways that maps can deceive themselves.
