Our Biometric Future PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General to the underground railroad and

to the underground railroad and Jim Crow segregation—the train becomes one of the exemplary spaces through which American cultural works explore questions of racial subjectivity

but also its threats

stigmatized

and fragments of memory

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Our Biometric Future PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General to the underground railroad andSince the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to see the human faceto develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them from one anothercommonly known as Facial Recognition Technology. While computer scientists are developing FRT in order to design more intelligent and interactive machines, businesses and states agencies view the technology as uniquely suited for smart surveillancesystems that