└── README.md /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # anti-racism-reading-list 2 | Working on a reading list for curriculum related to how technology perpetuates racism 3 | 4 | * [Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way.](https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/03/1002589/technology-perpetuates-racism-by-design-simulmatics-charlton-mcilwain/) by Charlton McIlwain 5 | * [African American Inequality in the United States](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56905) by Janice H. Hammond, A. Kamau Massey and Mayra G. Garza 6 | * [Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism](https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/) by Safiya Umoja Noble 7 | * [Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code](https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology) by Ruha Benjamin 8 | * [Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness](https://www.dukeupress.edu/dark-matters) by Simone Browne 9 | * [Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-software-9780190863845?cc=us&lang=en&) by Charlton D. McIlwain 10 | * [Carceral Capitalism ](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/carceral-capitalism) by Jackie Wang 11 | * [A brief history of how racism manifests itself in design and how we can learn from it](https://uxplanet.org/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-manifests-itself-in-design-and-how-we-can-learn-from-it-141b1b5ddd4b) by Amrutha Pal 12 | 13 | ## Lists of books on wider issues of racial justice and tech 14 | 15 | The main list focuses on readings related to the internet, computation, and algorithms. Here are some other resources for related readings outside of that scope. 16 | 17 | * [15+ Books by Black Scholars the Tech Industry Needs to Read Now](https://www.c2i2.ucla.edu/racial-justice-and-tech/) by Safiya Umoja Noble and Dr. Sarah T. Roberts 18 | 19 | To be continued... 20 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------