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Race After Technology
by Ruha Benjamin
The New Jim Code: how technologies reproduce racial hierarchy under the guise of neutrality, and what abolitionist tools might look like. Academic and sharp.
Read it if…
you want the race-and-tech argument in full.
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Skip it if…
you want a neutral survey.
Try instead: Algorithms of Oppression →
Three things you will actually use
- Neutral is a claim, not a fact.
- Default settings carry history.
- Design for justice.
Do this first
Read the chapter on engineered inequity.
Our verdict
Benjamin's New Jim Code.
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