Thursday 5/7 Questions - Olivia Brunner-Gaydos

1. The book Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble discusses biased search engines such as sexually explicit terms coming up when searching "black girls." How can biased searches like this contribute to institutionalized discrimination? What other ways can it be harmful?
2. Ramirez's "Deus ex Machina: Tradition, Technology, and the Chicanafuturist Art of Marion C. Martinez" discusses how "hispanos have been excluded from the world of science, technology, and reason, and confined to the domain of superstition, mythology, and intuition" by things like the tourist industry in New Mexico. In what other ways does the government contribute to these kinds of discrimination today?
3. "Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism" by Catherine Ramirez states that "Chicanafuturism articulates colonial and postcolonial histories of indigenismo, mestizaje, hegemony, and survival." Why is it important to have things like Chicanafuturism that tell these histories? 
4. In "How did social media unite and empower DREAMers?" the author Basma writes "numerous movements have gained attention and reached their goals through social media." How has social media been used to unite people during this pandemic?

In short, Hispanos have been excluded from the world of science, tech-nology, and reason, and confined to the domain of superstition, mythology, and intuition.

Nonetheless, like Native Americans (as well as other people of color and women in general), Hispanos, especially those in rural areas, are reputed to be closer to nature than white people, especially urban, middle- and upper-class whit