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Race After Technology

Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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By: Ruha Benjamin
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From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity.

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the "New Jim Code", she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life.

This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture.

©2019 Ruha Benjamin (P)2021 Tantor History & Culture Racism & Discrimination Social Sciences Sociology Technology & Society Thought-Provoking
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The world must not become complacent simply because the oppressed look like others. Someday soon they will look like you!

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This made me think and I enjoyed it immensely, “The New Jim Crow” provides a really good scaffold for this conversation and is mentioned a couple times.

Will make you think

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This brilliant book helped me identify many assumptions I’ve made about the objectivity of tech and the look beyond the branding to recognize the harm that tech can do in precisely the situations where it claims to be “the solution”

Tech isn’t inherently objective

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A deep dive into social justice issues that must be carefully and consultatively considered as we move into a more technological future. This will be a highly referenced guidebook for public and private institutions for decades to come.

Insightful and thought-provoking

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This book filled in so many gaps that I thought were just coincidence. This is a must read for all communities and more importantly our children.

Eye opening

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I really enjoyed this book. It was very informative and thought provoking. I would definitely recommend it.

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If we have any hope for liberation, this is part of the way to freedom for all.

Essential

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This book is another great addition to my growing collection on anti-racist and technology books as they pertain to black folks, women and POC.
Not going to make this long, but thank you for sharing all of this info.

Great read about the scary future of AI and other tech gadgets

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this is a very well researched and informative book very captivating. It was one of few books I finished

informative, captivating

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