Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

by Ruha Benjamin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509526404
• ISBN13: 9781509526406
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"