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XXVIII.6 November - December 2021
Page: 41
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The logics of (digital) distortion


Authors:
Safiya Noble

One of the most notorious attacks against civil rights in California—and a litmus test for the rest of the country—was Proposition 209, a 1996 grassroots constitutional reform that organizers called the "Prohibition Against Discrimination or Preferential Treatment by State and Other Public Entities." The campaign was a continuation of attacks on affirmative action, the federal and state laws designed to repair the effects of discrimination, but it carefully and strategically used the vocabularies of movements for justice. At the time, many voters thought they were voting to protect nondiscrimination laws, not repeal them. By adding Section 31 to the…




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