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Wai ("Why"), India

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Ruha Benjamin is Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science and medicine, race and technology, knowledge and power. Ruha is author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford 2013), Race After Technology (Polity 2019), and editor of Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke 2019), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Ruha Benjamin received her BA in sociology and anthropology from Spelman College, MA and PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics and Harvard University’s Science, Technolo ...more

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	Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code 4.26 avg rating — 2,395 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want 4.43 avg rating — 1,310 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imagination: A Manifesto 4.19 avg rating — 825 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives by James P. Steyer (Editor, Introduction), Cheri Vandenheuvel (Narrator), Kyle Chappel (Narrator) 3.79 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life 4.36 avg rating — 66 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence by Ruha Benjamin (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Mizue Aizeki (Editor), Matt Mahmoudi (Editor) 4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection by Jesse Stommel, Pete Rorabaugh, Howard Rheingold (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out by Adebe De Rango-Adem (Goodreads Author) (editor), Andrea Thompson (Editor), Sheila Addiscott 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom by Nettrice R Gaskins, Leah Buechley (Foreword), Ruha Benjamin (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

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“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.”
― Ruha Benjamin

tags: abolition, prefigurative

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“Invisibility, with regard to Whiteness, offers immunity. To be unmarked by race allows you to reap the benefits but escape responsibility for your role in an unjust system.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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“the New Jim Code”: the employment of new technologies that reflect and reproduce existing inequities but that are promoted and perceived as more objective or progressive than the discriminatory systems of a previous era.8”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
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― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

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“All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles, and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”
― Octavia E. Butler

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: freedom, self

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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon