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DESCRIPTION:Join Dorothy Roberts and Ruha Benjamin, author of 'Race After Technology: 
 Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code', for a conversation exploring a 
 range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity and racism.\n\nDate 
 and Time: Wed, July 8, 2020 @ 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PT\n\nWhere: 
 online\n\nCost: donation requested\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/policing-without-the-police-race-technology-and-the-new-jim-code-tickets-111998229720\n\nWith 
 calls for “defunding police” on the rise, invisible, tech-mediated 
 surveillance continues to penetrate every area of our lives – workplaces, 
 schools, hospitals, and of course policing itself.\n\nHow does this relate 
 to a longer history of surveilling Black life and how are people mobilizing 
 against this New Jim Code?\n\nFrom everyday apps to complex algorithms, 
 technology has the potential to hide, speed, \nand deepen discrimination, 
 while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared \nto racist 
 practices of a previous era.\n\nIn this conversation, Dorothy Roberts and 
 Ruha Benjamin explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode 
 inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but 
 thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but 
 ultimately doing quite \nthe opposite. \n\nThey take us into the world of 
 biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and 
 provide conceptual tools to resist the New Jim Code with historically and 
 sociologically-informed skepticism. \n\nIn doing so, they challenge us to 
 question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we 
 manufacture 
 ourselves.\n____________________________________________________________\n\nABOUT: 
 Ruha Benjamin\n\nRuha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American 
 Studies at Princeton University, founder of the Just Data Lab, and author 
 of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) 
 and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) 
 among other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of 
 science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between 
 innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. Professor 
 Benjamin is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from 
 the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, 
 Institute for Advanced Study, and the President’s Award for Distinguished 
 Teaching at Princeton. For more info visit 
 https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/\n\nABOUT: Dorothy Roberts\n\nDorothy Roberts, 
 an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of 
 Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with joint 
 appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the 
 Law School where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner 
 Mossell Alexander chair. She is also founding director of the Penn Program 
 on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies. Her path 
 breaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent social justice 
 issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and biopolitics. 
 Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big 
 Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century; Shattered Bonds: The 
 Color of Child Welfare, and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and 
 the Meaning of 
 Liberty.\n____________________________________________________________\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834898.php
SUMMARY:Policing Without the Police: Race, Technology and the New Jim Code
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/05/18834898.php
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