The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

by Deirdre Mask

Addresses aren’t just for emergency services. They also exist so people can find you, police you, tax you, and try to sell you things you don’t need through the mail.

Without an address, it’s nearly impossible to get a bank account. And without a bank account, you can’t save money, borrow money, or receive a state pension.

maps aren’t magic,” he continued. “They are tools by which we locate a series of discrete events and make them into a class, and then make arguments about that class. The more data we have the more specific we can be.”

House numbers exist not to help you find your way, but rather to help the government find you.

“We cannot be global citizens without a good understanding of our own culture and tradition.

Globalization in the proper sense of the word means that we should march out into the world on the strength of our unique culture and traditional values.”

America seemed to want to celebrate the Confederacy even though the Confederates had fought to destroy America itself. Why?

Mandela didn’t think that the Afrikaners were inherently bad; he knew they were simply afraid. And it was this fear, this insecurity, this almost religious commitment to racism, that led to apartheid,