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 terms. But, if you type in "white girls," the results are …
Shelve Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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…
Shelve Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made …
Shelve Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to pr…
Shelve The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the d…
Shelve Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.
“Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been an essential figu…
Shelve Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
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 how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nigh…
Shelve Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging pr…
Shelve Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History , a general introduction to the field of history that revels…
In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subv…
Shelve The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA …
Shelve Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history. On the 18th Bruma…
Sissy and Lola are best friends, next-door neighbors, and now… murder solvers? When Sissy picks up a lost flip-phone and follows the instructions from the stranger on the other line, she and Lola are …
In an isolated desert town, a young woman seeking a fresh start is confronted by ancient gods, malevolent supernatural forces, and eccentric neighbours. A witty horror-tinged fantasy, perfect for fans…
In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastat…
Shelve What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.
An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions.
