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Guest speaker Safiya Noble, associate professor at UCLA, speaks about the subject matter tackled in her book.(Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

The mechanics behind racism

Ally Nelson February 6, 2019

In 2009, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, professor at the University of Southern California, questioned Google’s search algorithms about specific phrases. When she searched phrases like black, Latina or...

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