Race in the Machine av Quincy Thomas Stewart

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<p><b>An intelligent machine built to study methods of social warfare struggles to understand and communicate the lived experience of race</b></p><p>In a narrative full of social significance and poetically decorated with monks, vampires, and mythical statistics, <i>Race in the Machine</i> presents a world where the stories we use to explain race all simultaneously exist, within and around us, dictating our interactions and innermost beliefs. </p><p>The nameless protagonist, an enigmatic social mechanic at Nearbay Institute, living in a population of socially connected intelligent machines, encounters a simple query in the context of an introductory lecture: "What exactly is race? And what is it in the context of the social machine?" This prompt guides the protagonist along a twisting intellectual tale surrounding a series of experiments which explore: How many racists does it take to create systems of inequality? What role do non-racists actors play in upholding them? How is bias lear