Race Books
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Author:
Safiya Umoja Noble
Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search term…
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Author:
Virginia Eubanks
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State …
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Author:
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just h…
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Author:
Ruha Benjamin
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce Whit…
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