The above link is to a video that you can watch as an alternative to the reading. Ruha Benjamin is author of Race After Technology and speaks at 5:30, Charlton MacIlwain is author of Black Software and discusses WEB Dubois: technology and the color line beginning at 15:55, Andre Brock is author of Distributed Blackness and talks about Black death and Black joy and resistance beginning at 28:44, and Safiyah Noble is author of Algorithms of Oppression and discusses artificial intelligence and Black studies beginning at 36:00.
Questions for you to reflect on:
If you opted to watch the videos, what did you think of the ideas of Jim Code, “tech and the color line,” “Black joy and resistance,” and algorithms of oppression?
