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A design choice must be examined in its institutional setting, not only through its stated intention.
Try the short introduction first, or bring equivalent reading experience. Obtain the specified text before beginning the longer reading.
Audit a fictional eligibility form’s categories and appeal process; distinguish an observed disparity from a proposed explanation.
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Introduces the question and vocabulary used in the longer selected reading.
Ruha Benjamin · book
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.
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Find a copyRace After Technology. Social analysis of race and technological design. Examine how a system’s categories, defaults and institutional uses can reproduce inequality.
Answer this question in your own words: How can an apparently neutral default distribute unequal consequences?
Name the claim, then explain why a reader might accept it.
A design choice must be examined in its institutional setting, not only through its stated intention.
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Common mistake: Summarising a biography instead of explaining the argument.
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Ruha Benjamin · book
Locate two passages about “How can an apparently neutral default distribute unequal consequences” using the contents or index. Record their chapter/section names in your notes; this route assigns selections, not the whole work.
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Find a copyRace After Technology. Social analysis of race and technological design. Examine how a system’s categories, defaults and institutional uses can reproduce inequality.
What would make your activity a convincing example?
Audit a fictional eligibility form’s categories and appeal process; distinguish an observed disparity from a proposed explanation.
A useful response carries out the task: Audit a fictional eligibility form’s categories and appeal process; distinguish an observed disparity from a proposed explanation. It records the observation or passage used and explains how it bears on the question.
What to look for
Common mistake: Presenting an opinion without showing the example it rests on.
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What is one conclusion this reading does not establish?
Test the boundary: A plausible mechanism requires evidence before it can explain a particular real-world outcome.
A plausible mechanism requires evidence before it can explain a particular real-world outcome.
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Common mistake: Treating a useful interpretation as an unrestricted fact.
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Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Social analysis of race and technological design. Examine how a system’s categories, defaults and institutional uses can reproduce inequality.
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.