Race After Technology

Race After Technology
AuthorRuha Benjamin
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
Published2019
PublisherPolity
Publication placeUSA
ISBN9781509526390

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code is a 2019 American non-fiction book focusing on a range of ways in which social hierarchies, particularly racism, are embedded in the logical layer of internet-based technologies. It won the 2020 Oliver Cox Cromwell Book Prize, 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Award for Nonfiction, and Honorable Mention for the 2020 Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Book Award, and has been widely reviewed.