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Title Captivating technology : race, carceral technoscience, and liberatory imagination in everyday life / Ruha Benjamin, editor
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019
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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
Summary 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 Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 10, 2019)
Subject Prisons -- United States
Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects -- United States
Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Privacy, Right of -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects.
Prisons.
Privacy, Right of.
Race relations.
Racial profiling in law enforcement.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century
Subject United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Benjamin, Ruha, editor.
LC no. 2018056888
ISBN 9781478004493
1478004495