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Benjamin, Ruha.
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Digital divide -- United States -- 21st century.
Information technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- 21st century.
Blacks -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.
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Benjamin, Ruha.
Digital divide -- United States -- 21st century.
Information technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- 21st century.
Blacks -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.
MARC Display
Race
after
technology
:
abolitionist
tools
for the '
new
Jim
code
' / Ruha Benjamin.
by
Benjamin, Ruha.
Polity, 2019.
Call #:
303.4833 B468r
Subjects
Digital divide -- United States -- 21st century.
Information
technology
-- Social aspects -- United States -- 21st century.
Blacks -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States --
Race
relations -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781509526406 (pbk.)
Description:
x, 285 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-273) and index.
Summary:
"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. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to 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 tool - a
technology
designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice that is part of the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements provides conceptual
tools
to decode 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 manufacture ourselves."--From publisher.
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