ESSAY
"Racial Tracking"

Categories

Jina Kim

February 18, 2003

World

Law

Technology

Education

9/11

Security

Terrorism

University

Second nature

Technological determinism

Technological fix

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"Technology has introduced a new mode of discrimination.  Colleges and universities are now required to send the federal government academic and disciplinary records of foreign students through the $36 million Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, Sevis....
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Its mere concept implies that foreign students are less trustworthy than U.S.-born students due to their racial backgrounds.  Technology is often perceived to provide an objective and unbiased approach, but in this case, it is the opposite."

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