Technology can be broken down into systems and processes, instead of machines and hardware. Along with systems and processes racism can be broken down into institutions rather than the individual. They begin to discuss how technologies from the industrial revolution began to advance the technology of racism. When barbed wire was patented it helped give the iconography of barbed wire as "prison". This iconography helped people advance their racism, when workers were help back by barbed wire fences the working class then began to get this lower class "below the general public" sense. With the working class being over-represented by people of color the stereotypes and racism began to surface. During the world war the college campus began to be the place where the technology flourished, with many ethnic studies groups popping up. Young people wanted so bad to identify with an oppressed group. To some point this type of technology is still around today. Groups like this exist on campuses and outside of campuses today. They are less about racism and more about feeling like they wanted to be apart of a group of people just like them.
Question: how do you think racism is apparent today as a technology?
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