1959: (Numbers and Letters Not to Flatten but to Expand — Comhaire-Sylvain Using Numbers and Letters Not to Flatten the Context but to Expand the Definition,…

1959: (Numbers and Letters Not to Flatten but to Expand — Comhaire-Sylvain Using Numbers and Letters Not to Flatten the Context but to Expand the Definition, Dividing the City into Quadrants of Population Density Parish Affiliation Housing Style and Relationship to Labor She Partitioning Port-au-Prince into Four Class Zones — Her Concern Being One of Relation Over Evidentiary Abundance, Observing That Class Labels and Difference Hurt People Held People Inflated People Left People Unaccountable to One Another and Unaccounted For): Comhaire-Sylvain used numbers and letters not to flatten the context, but to expand the definition. Dividing the city into quadrants of population density, parish affiliation, housing style, and relationship to labor, she partitioned the city into four class zones. Her concern was one of relation over evidentiary abundance. Comhaire-Sylvain observed that class labels and difference hurt people, held people, inflated people, left people unaccountable to one another and unaccounted for — the method was an ethics: if you could not name people without harming them, then you must find a new way to name.