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Undetectable: “Coded Bias” Challenges the Racism of Facial-Recognition Software
Artificial intelligence is a danger to our civil rights when it replicates historical qualities of any real-life bias.
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White Rage, White Guilt: How Long Do We Wait for White Women to Learn?
I believe that the intentions were good, but the worst thing about good intentions is that sometimes the energy can be misplaced.
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There’s No Such Thing as the “Latino Vote”
Latinos “flocked to the polls” in numbers that far exceeded what experts expected.
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Distressed Damsels: There’s Nothing Accidental about White Feminist Racism
The white self—not the white person as a human being, but as a white person in the society—is built on this myth of morality and goodness surrounded by heathens and disease-ridden savages.
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Savior to Suit: Why Do People Want to Hate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
AOC is a politician, not a martyr.
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Understanding Kamala Harris, the Great Multiracial (Black) Hope
Will her election as vice president open the floodgates for another false “post-racial” moment in the mainstream social and political imagination?
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“Bad Hair” Makes a Tangled Mess of Black Women’s Woes
In his quest to create a fable about Black women’s hair, Justin Simien overlooks the actual function it plays in Black women’s lives.
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Are You Muslim? and Other Questions White Landlords Ask Me
I can say that I am a Hindu and solve this problem. But I do not.
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Mind Interrupted: The Horrifying Manipulation of Black Women’s Psyches
The traumatic spectacles of these transformations often reveal so little about the interiority of the fictional Black women who experience them.
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Progressive Lenses: Women Candidates and the New Double Standard
Merely stating that sexism exists in politics can imperil any woman’s political campaign.
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