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Is it even possible to redirect people’s intimate choices? Should we care?

Posted on April 12, 2022 by David

Read the following article about how racial beliefs and algorithms influence the dating app world: “Redesign Dating Apps to Lessen Racial Bias, Study Recommends” (Cornell University, Computing and Information Science). Note how black men and women are ten times more likely to message whites than whites are to message blacks, and think about how racism […]

What gave rise to the concept of intersectionality, what was the federal court’s reasoning denying a case on both race and sex discrimination, and why does Crenshaw conclude that reasoning is invalid?

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Essay-Help

The origins of “intersectionality”To understand what intersectionality is, and what it has become, you have to look at Crenshaw’s body of work over the past 30 years on race and civil rights. A graduate of Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin, Crenshaw has focused in much of her research on the concept […]

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Is it even possible to redirect people’s intimate choices? Should we care?

What gave rise to the concept of intersectionality, what was the federal court’s reasoning denying a case on both race and sex discrimination, and why does Crenshaw conclude that reasoning is invalid?