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"Cutting through tech-industry hype, this book explores how emerging technologies reinforce white supremacy. Conceptualizing the "New Jim Code," Benjamin shows how discriminatory designs can encode inequity and also makes a case for race itself as a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice"-- "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. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, 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. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of tool – a technology designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice that is part of the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves"--
Social problems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Digital divide --- Information technology --- African Americans --- Whites --- United States --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Race relations --- Sociology of minorities --- racial discrimination --- algorithms --- algoritmen --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography. --- Digital divide - United States - 21st century --- Information technology - Social aspects - United States - 21st century --- African Americans - Social conditions - 21st century --- Whites - United States - Social conditions - 21st century --- United States - Race relations - 21st century
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Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Despite claims that we now live in a post-racial society, race continues to disadvantage those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Kalwant Bhopal explores how neoliberal policy making has increased rather than decreased discrimination faced by those from non-white backgrounds. She also shows how certain types of whiteness are not privileged; Gypsies and Travellers, for example, remain marginalised and disadvantaged in society. Drawing on topical debates and supported by empirical data, this important book examines the impact of race on wider issues of inequality and difference in society
Minorities --- Post-racialism. --- Privilege (Social psychology). --- Social conditions. --- arbeidsmarkt --- scholing --- armoede --- gender --- racisme --- Sociology of minorities --- Whites --- Race identity --- Equality --- Post-racialism --- Privilege (Social psychology) --- Social conditions --- History --- Attitudes --- United States --- Great Britain --- Race relations --- Discriminatie --- Etnisch-culturele minderheden --- Neoliberalisme --- Sociale ongelijkheid --- Race discrimination --- Social problems --- White people --- Whites - United States - Social conditions --- Whites - Great Britain - Social conditions --- Whites - Race identity - United States - History --- Whites - Race identity - Great Britain - History --- Whites - United States - Attitudes - History --- Whites - Great Britain - Attitudes - History --- Equality - United States --- Minorities - Social conditions --- United States - Race relations --- Great Britain - Race relations --- History. --- Race relations. --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race
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