Race After Technology: author’s introduction

Social analysis of race and technological design. Examine how a system’s categories, defaults and institutional uses can reproduce inequality.

How to study this source

• How can an apparently neutral default distribute unequal consequences?

  coreAuthor’s Race After Technology overview; identify the distinction between neutral appearance and discriminatory effects.

  Social analysis of race and technological design. Examine how a system’s categories, defaults and institutional uses can reproduce inequality.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against