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Captivating technology : race, carceral technoscience, and liberatory imagination in everyday life / Ruha Benjamin, editor.

Other author/creatorBenjamin, Ruha editor.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice ©2019
Description1 online resource
Supplemental Content ProQuest Ebook Central
Subject(s)
Contents Naturalizing coercion: the Tuskegee experiments and the laboratory life of the plantation / Britt Rusert -- Consumed by disease : medical archives, Latino fictions, and carceral health imaginaries / Christopher Perreira -- Billions served : prison food regimes, nutritional punishment, and gastronomical resistance / Anthony Ryan Hatch -- Shadows of war, traces of policing : the weaponization of space and the sensible in preemption / Andrea Miller -- This is not Minority Report : predictive policing and population racism / Joshua Scannell -- Racialized surveillance in the digital service economy / Winifred Poster -- Digital character in "the scored society" : FICO, social networks, and competing measurements of creditworthiness / Tamara K. Nopper -- Deception by design : digital skin, racial matter, and the new policing of child sexual exploitation / Mitali Thakor -- Employing the carceral imaginary : an ethnography of worker surveillance in the retail industry / Madison Van Oort -- Anti-racist technoscience : a generative tradition / Ron Eglash -- Techno-vernacular creativity and innovation across the African diaspora and Global South / Nettrice R. Gaskins -- Making skin visible through liberatory design / Lorna Roth -- Scratch a theory, you find a biography / a conversation with Troy Duster -- Reimagining race, resistance, and technoscience / a conversation with Dorothy Roberts.
Abstract The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 10, 2019).
Issued in other formPrint version: Captivating technology. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478003236
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2018056888
ISBN9781478004493 (electronic book)
ISBN1478004495 (electronic book)
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