Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Ruha Benjamin: Sociology/African-American Studies/Science & Technology/Knowledge & Power (Azimuths)

 Ruha Benjamin's Website

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Benjamin, Ruha. "A Lab of Their Own: Genomic sovereignty as postcolonial science policy." Policy & Society 28.4 (2009): 341-355.

---. "Cultura Obscura: Race, Power, and 'Culture Talk' in the Health Sciences." American Journal of Law and Medicine 43 (2017): 225-238.

---, ed.  Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Duke University Press, 2019: 1-22.

---. "Ferguson is the Future." Data Society (June 2018): 1-21.

---. "Informed Refusal: Toward a Justice-based Bioethics." Science, Technology, & Human Values (2016): 1-24.

---. "Innovating inequity: If race is a technology, postracialism is the genius bar." Ethnic and Racial Studies (July 15, 2016): 1-8.

---. "Interrogating Equity: A Disability Justice Approach to Genetic Engineering." Issues in Science and Technology (Spring 2016): 1-4.

---. People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier. Stanford University Press, 2013.

---. "Race After Technology." Data After Society (November 26, 2019) ["Ruha Benjamin discusses the relationship between machine bias and systemic racism, analyzing specific cases of “discriminatory design” and offering tools for a socially-conscious approach to tech development. In "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code," Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype, from everyday apps to complex algorithms, to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. 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."]

---. Race After Technology: Abolitionists Tools for the New Jim Code. Wiley, 2019.

---. "Race for Cures: Rethinking the Racial Logics of ‘Trust’ in Biomedicine." Sociology Compass 8.6 (2014): 755 - 769.

---. "Racial Fictions, Biological Facts: Expanding the Sociological Imagination through Speculative Methods." Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 2.2 (2016): 1-28.

---. "The Social Dimensions of Science, Technology and Medicine." Northwestern Digital Learning Project #12 (June 5, 2019)



















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