A review by aweekinthelife
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

informative medium-paced

4.25

read as part of a work book club (but then too many meetings and never made it to any of the discussions). i think i would've enjoyed this one more if i did have people to talk about it with. similar overlap with some of the other books i've been reading recently: Weapons of Math Destruction, Carceral Capitalism. still a good conversation about how race is/can be coded into technology.

from chapter Default Discrimination 

 This illustrates how innovations reflect the priorities and concerns of those who frame the problems to be solved, and how such solutions may reinforce forms of social dismissal, regardless of the intentions of individual programmers...  A narrow investment in technical innovation necessarily displaces a broader set of social interests. This is more than a glitch. It is a form of exclusion and subordination built into the ways in which priorities are established and solutions defined in the tech industry.