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Author:
Benjamin, Ruha author.
Title:
Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code / Ruha Benjamin.
Publisher:
Polity,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
x, 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject:
2000-2099
Digital divide--United States--21st century.
Information technology--Social aspects--United States--21st century.
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
Whites--United States--Social conditions--21st century.
United States--Race relations--21st century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-273) and index.
Contents:
Retooling solidarity, reimagining justice. Default discrimination -- Coded exposure -- Technological benevolence -- Retooling solidarity, reimagining justice.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781509526390
1509526390
9781509526406
1509526404
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1078415817
LCCN:
2018059981
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)
PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

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