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AI · June 20, 2020

Race After Technology

A book on the ways race & tech can be closely connected

Race After Technology launched on June 20, 2020 with 66 votes, #748 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

This book discusses the many ways racism, discrimination, and bias can be built into the products we create. It provides many examples, from Kodak camera’s skin color bias to surveillance systems that target Black and Brown people in policing.

Race After Technology (Polity) cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racism of a previous era.

“What’s ultimately distinctive about Race After Technology is that its withering critiques of the present are so galvanizing... This is perhaps Benjamin’s greatest feat in the book: Her inventive and wide-ranging analyses remind us that as much as we try to purge ourselves from our tools and view them as external to our flaws, they are always extensions of us. As exacting a worldview as that is, it is also inclusive and hopeful." “This book is worthy of the widest readership, leaving us not only with a deeper understanding of the mutual and shifting roles of race and technology, but also, importantly, with the manageable and doable tools with which to create alternative, equitable,…from ruhabenjamin.com

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