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Racial Justice Resources: Algorithmic Injustice

Ebooks @ UW Libraries

book cover: Algorithms of Oppression : How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

book cover: Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

book cover: Captivating Technology : Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

book cover: The Rise of Big Data Policing : Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement

book cover: Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

book cover: Dark Matters : On the Surveillance of Blackness

book cover: Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence

book cover: Digitize and Punish : Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age

book cover: When Biometrics Fail : Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity

book cover: The Technology of Policing : Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control

book cover: The Ethical Algorithm : the Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

book cover: Data Feminism

book cover: Black Software : The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

book cover: Predict and Surveil : Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

book cover: Digital Punishment : Privacy, Stigma & the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice

book: Understanding E-Carceration : Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration

Technology: Current Editorials, Articles & Essays

Michelle Ruiz, "Safiya Noble Knew the Algorithm Was Oppressive," Vogue, 10/21/2021.
Joshua Adams, "How Google Search Can Serve Up Racist Results," ColorLines, 6/11/2021
Drew Harwell, "Amazon extends ban on police use of its facial recognition technology indefinitely," Washington Post, 5/18/2021.
Drew Harwell, "Senators seek limits on some facial-recognition use by police, energizing surveillance technology debate," Washington Post, 4/21/2021
Terrell Jermaine Starr, "Michigan Man Sues Detroit Police Department After Wrongful Arrest Aided by Facial Recognition Software," The Root, 4/14/2021.
David K. Li, "Black man in New Jersey misidentified by facial recognition tech and falsely jailed, lawsuit claims," NBC News, 12/29/2020
Natalie O'Neill, "Faulty Facial Recognition Led to His Arrest—Now He’s Suing," Vice, 9/4/2020
Tomas Kassahun, "NYPD Raids Home Of BLM Protester After Tracking Him Down Using Facial Recognition Software," Blavity, 8/17/2020
McIlwain, Charlton. “Of Course Technology Perpetuates Racism. It Was Designed That Way.” MIT Technology Review, vol. 123, no. 4, July 2020, pp. 12–13.
Malkia Devich-Cyril, "Defund Facial Recognition," The Atlantic, 7/5/2020
Kade Crockford, "How is Face Recognition Surveillance Technology Racist?" ACLU, 6/16/2020
Geoffrey A. Fowler, "Black Lives Matter could change facial recognition forever — if Big Tech doesn’t stand in the way," Washington Post, 6/12/2020
Drew Harwell, "Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems, casts doubt on their expanding use," Washington Post, 12/19/2019
Tom Simonite, "The Best Algorithms Struggle to Recognize Black Faces Equally," Wired, 7/22/2019
Tom Simonite, "When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind," Wired, 1/11/2018
Clare Garvie and Jonathan Frankle, "Facial-Recognition Software Might Have a Racial Bias Problem," The Atlantic, 4/7/2016

Selected Academic Articles on Facial Recognition

Selected Academic Articles

To find additional articles on this topic use the databases recommended on relevant research guides such as Law, Societies & Justice, Computer Science & Engineering, and Sociology.

Selected Academic Articles on Policing & Technology

Browning, Matthew, and Bruce Arrigo. “Stop and Risk: Policing, Data, and the Digital Age of Discrimination.” American Journal of Criminal Justice, Aug. 2020.
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Mann, Monique, and Matzner, Tobias. “Challenging Algorithmic Profiling: The Limits of Data Protection and Anti-Discrimination in Responding to Emergent Discrimination.” Big Data & Society., vol. 6, no. 2, 2019, p. 205395171989580.
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O'Donnell, Renata M. “Challenging Racist Predictive Policing Algorithms under the Equal Protection Clause.” New York University Law Review (1950), vol. 94, 2019, pp. 544.580.
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Mayson, Sandra G. “Bias In, Bias Out.” Yale Law Journal, vol. 128, no. 8, 2019, pp. 2218-2300.
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Minocher, Xerxes, and Caelyn Randall. “Predictable Policing: New Technology, Old Bias, and Future Resistance in Big Data Surveillance.” Convergence, June 2020.
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