Mediocre : The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
available December, hardcover, Seal Press
From the author of So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. As provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness.
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A Great Gift... Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Artificial Whiteness : Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence by Yarden Katz
available now, paperback, Columbia University Press
Drawing on intimate familiarity with the field and its practices, Katz asks us to see how AI reinforces models of knowledge that assume white male superiority and an imperialist worldview. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an allencompassing technological force. Bringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies.
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
by Isabel Wilkerson "From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns this book drills deep into the bedrock of race relations in the United States. Both heartbreaking and immersive, this is a great gift for those wanting to explore themes of race from one of the most insightful authors of our time." –Matt
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–Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A Great Gift... Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman "If phrases like 'Humans are the worst, why can't we all be dogs?' sounds like something that you'd say, this is the book for you. It will leave you with a new found admiration for your fellow homosapiens." –Melissa
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