Race, Justice and Technology

To launch the Tanner Humanities Center's 2020-2021 series on "Technology and the Humanities," Ruha Benjamin joined Tanner Humanities Center Director Erika George for a Tanner Talk on the intersections of race, justice and technology. Ruha Benjamin is a Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and founder of the Just Data Lab. Her work analyzes the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. Her books include: Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (2019, editor), and People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013).