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The materialization of race in modern technologies. Hammonds, “ New Technologies of Race ” Barboza , “ Ogre to Slay? Outsource it to the Chinese ”. Morphing technology: Michael Jackson: Black or White.
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The materialization of race in modern technologies Hammonds, “New Technologies of Race” Barboza, “Ogre to Slay? Outsource it to the Chinese”
Though it’s been debunked, “race—both as a social construct and scientific concept—is still deeply embedded in morphology... Race, defined biologically in terms of morphological differences between certain pure types as been re-inscribed in the new computer technology of ‘morphing’” (109).
“In this technology persons of different races are not produced as a result of sexual intercourse between persons of two different races but by a computer-generated simulation of the mixing of genetic characteristics that are presumed to be determinants of morphological differences between pure racial types” (109).
“[Sim Eve] is the representation of the desire to deny kinship and retain masculine power based on the maintenance of racial difference”(120).
Is there a way in which the material effects of race—however constructed the term may be—may become re-biologizedin ways that ends up differentiating races?