Minority Tech
Minority Tech

Author: Anjuan Simmons

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-07-28

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 061585883X

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The technology field has become a key driver of the world economy. Companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are not only iconic organizations, but their founders are often legends in their own right. However, the ethnic and gender make-up of these companies are overwhelmingly reflections of their founders: white males. Anjuan Simmons has worked in the technology industry for 20 years are a software developer, infrastructure architect, and software project manager. His experiences as a minority in the technology industry inspired him to describe them on his blog. Minority Tech is a curated, edited, and augmented selection of those blog entries. The titles covered include: The New Negro Problem, America and the Loss of the Black Genius, A Code of Conduct for Black Men, Why I Believe in Affirmative Action, What the world Needs from Trayvon Martin, 3 Reasons Why the Technology Industry Needs More Diversity, What Facebook Taught Me about Rape Prevention, and more.

Race After Technology
Race After Technology

Author: Ruha Benjamin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1509526439

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From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs 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 the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture. Visit the book's free Discussion Guide: www.dropbox.com

Digital Games for Minority Student Engagement: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Digital Games for Minority Student Engagement: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Misra, Rupanada

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-02-15

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1522533990

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Due to various challenges within the public-school system, such as underfunding, lack of resources, and difficulty retaining and recruiting teachers of color, minority students have been found to be underperforming compared to their majority counterparts. Minority students deserve quality public education, which can only happen if the gap in equity and access is closed. In order to close this achievement gap between the majority and minority groups, it is critical to increase the learning gains of the minority students. Digital Games for Minority Student Engagement: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that argues that digital games can potentially help to solve the problems of minority students’ insufficient academic preparation, and that a game-based learning environment can help to engage these students with the content and facilitate academic achievement. Featuring research on topics such as education policy, interactive learning, and student engagement, this book is ideally designed for educators, principals, policymakers, academicians, administrators, researchers, and students.