Race After Technology

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

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• How can an apparently neutral default distribute unequal consequences?

  coreIntroduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.

  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.

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