Legibility, Risk Avoidance, and the Procedural Suppression of Racialized Credibility
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| author | Brown, Mya |
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| contents | <p>This paper examines a recurring socio-technical phenomenon in contemporary institutional systems: the withdrawal of engagement following the translation of lived experience into structured, policy-aligned, and legible form. Drawing on scholarship in critical race theory, sociology of bureaucracy, and administrative ethics, the paper argues that such withdrawals are best understood not as responses to content, tone, or technology per se, but as manifestations of institutional risk avoidance triggered by increased legibility.</p> <p>Particular attention is paid to how racialized subjects, especially Black women, encounter a structural credibility trap wherein emotional expression is discredited as instability, while analytic clarity is reframed as inauthenticity or undue influence. The analysis demonstrates that the denial of translation tools—including AI-mediated articulation—functions as a mechanism for preserving discretionary ambiguity, thereby protecting institutional actors from accountability without requiring explicit discriminatory intent.</p> <p> </p> |
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| spellingShingle | Legibility, Risk Avoidance, and the Procedural Suppression of Racialized Credibility Brown, Mya <p>This paper examines a recurring socio-technical phenomenon in contemporary institutional systems: the withdrawal of engagement following the translation of lived experience into structured, policy-aligned, and legible form. Drawing on scholarship in critical race theory, sociology of bureaucracy, and administrative ethics, the paper argues that such withdrawals are best understood not as responses to content, tone, or technology per se, but as manifestations of institutional risk avoidance triggered by increased legibility.</p> <p>Particular attention is paid to how racialized subjects, especially Black women, encounter a structural credibility trap wherein emotional expression is discredited as instability, while analytic clarity is reframed as inauthenticity or undue influence. The analysis demonstrates that the denial of translation tools—including AI-mediated articulation—functions as a mechanism for preserving discretionary ambiguity, thereby protecting institutional actors from accountability without requiring explicit discriminatory intent.</p> <p> </p> |
| title | Legibility, Risk Avoidance, and the Procedural Suppression of Racialized Credibility |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18520910 |