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The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive "big data" regimes.  Predatory Data illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, globally multisited analysis of the relations of dispossession, misrecognition, and segregation expanded by dominant knowledge institutions in the Age of Big Data.   While technological advancement has a tendency to feel inevitable, it always has a history, including efforts to chart a path for alternative futures and the important parallel story of defiant refusal and liberatory activism. Chan explores how more than a century ago, feminist, immigrant, and other minoritized actors refused dominant institutional research norms and worked to develop alternative data practices whose methods and traditions continue to reverberate through global justice-based data initiatives today. Looking to the past to shape our future, this book charts a path for an alternative historical consciousness grounded in the pursuit of global justice. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Technology --- Discrimination in science --- Eugenics --- Quantitative research --- Big data --- Social aspects. --- History. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination

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"A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in the interior of West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. He escaped from slavery when his master took him to New York City in 1847. Baquaqua then fled to Haiti where he converted to Christianity. When he eventually returned to the United States, he enrolled in New York Central College. Baquaqua published his autobiography in 1854 and traveled to Liverpool, England, with the intention of returning to Africa. He apparently achieved this goal by the early 1860s, when his paper trail disappears. Lovejoy and Bezerra's analysis of this remarkable autobiography - the only known narrative by a former Brazilian slave - illuminates what Baquaqua's home in Africa was like, examines African slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Brazil, and offers an Atlantic perspective on resistance to slavery in the Americas in the era of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850"--

Enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons --- Enslaved Muslims --- Free Black people --- Free Black people --- Black people --- Slavery --- HISTORY / World --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery --- Biography. --- History --- History --- Baquaqua, Mahommah Gardo.

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Sex work is often called the oldest profession in the world. It manifests itself in a plethora of forms. A move to private locations is now taking place: contacts are established via the Internet and meetings take place at appointed places. This makes it more difficult to monitor forced work, and exploitation therefore risks remaining undetected. This book presents empirical findings regarding exploitation in various countries, considering sex workers, traffickers and clients, and the fight against human trafficking. Countries differ vastly in their legislative approaches, ranging from highly repressive to very liberal. This volume asks whether the ongoing process of making and changing laws is sufficiently effective in fighting human trafficking. Other interventions could obtain better outcomes, such as promoting more independence among women and helping trafficked individuals to get out. Less ideology and more attention to the facts of exploitation and sex work might help to achieve these aims.

Ethical issues: prostitution and sex industry. --- Laws of Specific jurisdictions. --- LAW / Gender & the Law. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights. --- Social Science/Human Trafficking. --- Human trafficking. --- Legal systems: general. --- Law: Human rights and civil liberties. --- Criminal law: Gender violence.

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"Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States. On the ground and on social media, more people have taken an active stance in support of either or both movements than almost any others in the country's history. Social Movements and the Law brings together the voices of twelve scholars and public intellectuals to explore how Black Lives Matter and #MeToo unfolded-separately and together-and how they enrich, inform, and complicate each other. Structured in dialogues and punctuated with informative text boxes, illustrations, and discussion questions, this accessible guide to an increasingly influential area of the law centers rich intersectional analysis of both movements and prompts readers to undertake further reflection and conversation. At a time of heightened public attention to the broader scholarly study of human social behavior and interaction, this book shows rather than tells how people with different perspectives can engage one another with open minds and a generosity of spirit"--

Race discrimination --- Discrimination in law enforcement --- Discrimination in justice administration --- African Americans --- Sexual harassment of women --- Social justice --- Black lives matter movement --- MeToo movement --- Discrimination dans l'application des lois --- Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice --- Noirs américains --- Justice sociale --- Mouvement Black Lives Matter --- Mouvement #MoiAussi --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies. --- Law and legislation --- Violence against --- Civil rights. --- Droits. --- Discrimination raciale --- Sexual harassment --- Harcèlement sexuel --- Droit --- Violence envers --- Social movements --- Mouvements sociaux --- Contestation