What would a map look like if it aimed at empowering the territory it represents and its people?
How can a cartographic gesture allow its referent to speak on its own terms?
How can we map Long Island Latinx communities in a way that allows them to become
politically visible without becoming socially vulnerable? In spite of their increased presence,
vital contribution of close to 20% of the local economy (see “New Americans on Long Island,”
Hagedorn, 2011), and their growing cultural presence in music, literature, filmmaking,
gastronomy, and visual art, Latinxs remain a rather unknown group among their neighbors.