Recommendations
In this segment, we will collect recommendations for lectures, films, books, podcasts, documentaries, or research articles. Everyone is welcome to share their recommendations on any topic (see the Google form on the Contact page). If you are recommending something, please send in a short blurb describing the book/article/film etc. This segment is organized from top to bottom, latest recommendations at the top.
Book recommendation: Race After Technology
At an age where we are surrounded by new and emerging technological advancements (looking at you, ChatGPT), are we aware that these complex algorithms were built from databases that may deepen social inequity? Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, and in her book "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code", she discusses racism in technology, and introduces the idea that race itself is a technology. (Posted 6/21/23)
Book recommendation: Conviction
"Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined in relation to our biological makeup." This book was a part of the Racism in Neuroscience course offered by Dr Z Yan Wang in Spring 2023. The authro, Dr Oliver Rollins (read more about him here), is an assistant professor at the Department of American Ethnic Studies. (Posted 6/19/23)
Notable speaker: Dr Joonkoo Park
On May 18th, we welcomed Dr Joonkoo Park from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst as a Loucks speaker. Read more about Dr Park's work here. (Posted 5/20/23)