Social Justice Books
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
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…
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State …
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology an…
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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…
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. A…
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weak…
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce Whit…