Race After Technology
by Ruha Benjamin · first published 2019
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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. 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,
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…or the heritage of studying the outcomes of technology, thats your call, but it doesn't provide you an effective framework to justify your beliefs. From the perspective of good faith: please do read "Race After Technology" by Ruha Benjamin and "Algorithms of Oppression" by Safiya Noble. They are two books that i wish more tech and tech adjacent people would read. > Now, CS approached with the conclusion that it is biased…
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