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STS Distinguished Speaker 2012, Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute / University of Chicago

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. But the activists were also engaged in a broader struggle for social justice in health.

Contemporary digital media production centers on the Asia-Pacific region—Silicon Valley and China, sites where software and hardware are made. Asians and Asia have become racialized as digital; the \"nimble fingers\" of Asian women are a key resource in digital industries. However, this gendering and racialization of computer manufacture as women of colors\' work has a forgotten earlier history.