The protracted negotiationsbetween South Africa and France for the return of Baartman’s remains – her skeleton, brain,and genitals
The governments gross neglect of respect for Baartman, shown by their liking a human beings remains to a quartered cow and negotiating over it is amplified by the authors details of what they are negotiating over.
encouraged to regard refusal to submit samples with suspicio
This is an example how this system, along with many others is overtly unfair and unjust, but since it states the samples are provided "voluntarily" the system can save face even though refusal causes suspicion which allows the samples to be taken forcefully.
But, through social mediatechnologies, the hashtag phenomenon allows people to decode and recode these mediatedhails astutely and collectively
With a lot of social media activist movements, I wonder how much of an actual affect the, for this case, hashtags have on the racist people who made the decision to, for example, use "more thuggish" photos on the news. I know social media is great for increasing the awareness towards an issue, but I always think that the people who made the racist decision are not involved with the parts of social media that include social activism.
Yet, Parabon said it was 85.7 percentconfident about the suspect’s skin shade and 93.8 percent confident about his eye color
Why are people motivated to do this, what is the usefulness of racially profiling people with technology?
evidence for what they seek without questioning the basic premise to begin with
Confirmation Bias
a belief that more humans can be like those already deemed superio
Does social standing influence the opinion on what it means to be superior?
if you exposed film for a white kid, the black kid sitting next to him would be renderedinvisible except for the whites of his eyes and teeth
This downfall of the film technology motivated the separation of race in photographs since the light range was too narrow to accurately capture both a white and black person. Was this by design?
company over a seven-year period, until finally Polaroid pulled out of SouthAfrica completely.
Again a corporation causing injustice solely to make a profit. What is ridiculous to me is that they did this for 7 years and wouldn't of stopped unless the pressure from activists was too great and interfered with their earnings.
f “fixes” for underexposure in order to calibrate the color;for instance they could add more lighting to darker subjects
Reminds me of the corporation who has installed sensors that were indifferent to black people. Offering fixes that keep the current status quo.
being exposed is also a process of enclosure
The wording of the sentence reinforces the idea that exposure of a person counterintuitively causes social constriction.
classify human difference
It is interesting to see this definition of photography, although it is a true consequence of documenting the visual representation of a person. It makes me wonder how human difference was perceived before cameras and mirrors?
einstall the old sensors
The corporations surrender to reinstall the old sensors is a sign of the companies reluctant acceptance that their new technologies have done no good, but only existed to discriminate against black employees.