When machine learning and the use of computers are emphasized in artistic research, in reconstructions, or in beauty contests, viewers often take the results to be scientific, objective, and unbiased. But they are not.
Nyasha Junior
Nyasha Junior is associate professor in the department of religion at Temple University. She writes on religion, race, and gender, and is the author of Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible.
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The Story of the Black King Among the Magi
The story behind the rise and decline of the popularity of the black magus during the Renaissance has been largely forgotten, but at one time, the tale was used to explain the perceived need for conversion to Christianity, the three ages of man, as well as emerging theories of race.
