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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPolity Press
ISBN-139781509526406
eBay Product ID (ePID)8046577481
Product Key Features
Number of Pages172 Pages
Publication NameRace after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSociology
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
AuthorRuha Benjamin
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height214 mm
Item Weight412 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorRuha Benjamin