https://github.com/shiffman/anti-racism-reading-list
Working on a reading list related to how technology perpetuates racism
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Working on a reading list related to how technology perpetuates racism
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/shiffman/anti-racism-reading-list
- Owner: shiffman
- Created: 2020-06-10T16:06:20.000Z (about 5 years ago)
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- Last Pushed: 2020-06-14T15:53:40.000Z (about 5 years ago)
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# anti-racism-reading-list
Working on a reading list for curriculum related to how technology perpetuates racism
* [Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way.](https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/03/1002589/technology-perpetuates-racism-by-design-simulmatics-charlton-mcilwain/) by Charlton McIlwain
* [African American Inequality in the United States](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56905) by Janice H. Hammond, A. Kamau Massey and Mayra G. Garza
* [Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism](https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/) by Safiya Umoja Noble
* [Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code](https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology) by Ruha Benjamin
* [Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness](https://www.dukeupress.edu/dark-matters) by Simone Browne
* [Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-software-9780190863845?cc=us&lang=en&) by Charlton D. McIlwain
* [Carceral Capitalism ](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/carceral-capitalism) by Jackie Wang
* [A brief history of how racism manifests itself in design and how we can learn from it](https://uxplanet.org/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-manifests-itself-in-design-and-how-we-can-learn-from-it-141b1b5ddd4b) by Amrutha Pal
## Lists of books on wider issues of racial justice and tech
The main list focuses on readings related to the internet, computation, and algorithms. Here are some other resources for related readings outside of that scope.
* [15+ Books by Black Scholars the Tech Industry Needs to Read Now](https://www.c2i2.ucla.edu/racial-justice-and-tech/) by Safiya Umoja Noble and Dr. Sarah T. Roberts
To be continued...