The New Jim Code

History of Technology

Ruha Benjamin's term for technologies that reproduce racial hierarchy under the guise of objectivity and progress. Connects modern algorithmic bias to the historical legacy of racial discrimination.

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Unit 18: who decides

History of Technology

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