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Race after technology. Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code: by Ruha Benjamin, Cambridge, Polity, 2019, 285 pp., £ 14.99 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2639-0
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If there is one positive consequence stemming from the election of Donald Trump to the White House, it is the surge of critical investigations examining the relationships between big tech and democ...
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Metadata
- Authors
- Merz, S.
- Venue
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-01-27
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 2486-2488
- ISSN
- 0141-9870 (ISSN-L)
- 1466-4356
- OpenAlex
- W3003646990
- Cited by
- 1,870
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 317.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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