Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Ruha Benjamin names the “New Jim Code,” showing how automated systems repackage racial control as innovation and calling for abolitionist technological imagination.

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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This book belongs in FemRes because it treats technology as a feminist problem of power, labor, embodiment, and knowledge, not as a neutral tool. For readers, it expands digital feminism beyond representation: Ruha Benjamin names the “New Jim Code,” showing how automated systems repackage racial control as innovation and calling for abolitionist technological imagination.

It is especially useful alongside FemRes topics on AI ethics, data justice, digital labor, cyberfeminism, and design justice, where technical systems are read as social arrangements.

Publication Info

Author: Ruha Benjamin
Published: July 9, 2019
ISBN: 9781509526406
Language: English

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