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Making the World Clean

Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism

by Françoise Vergès

ISBN: 9781913380397

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: August 6, 2024

An antiracist theory of cleaning.

More than a Glitch

Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

by Meredith Broussard

ISBN: 9780262548328

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 2, 2024

When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world.

Disparate Measures

The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work

by Mary A. Armstrong and Susan L. Averett

ISBN: 9780262048866

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 26, 2024

An exploration of workplace participation and earnings patterns for diverse women in US STEM professions that upends the myth that STEM work benefits women economically.

Migration Stigma

Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion

Edited by Lawrence H. Yang, Maureen A. Eger and Bruce G. Link

ISBN: 9780262548120

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 26, 2024

An introduction to the concept of “migration stigma,” along with new analytical frameworks to deepen understanding of the experiences of immigrants, their descendants, and native-born residents in immigrant-receiving societies.

Discriminating Data

Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition

by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

ISBN: 9780262548526

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 5, 2024

How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage.

Decolonizing Design

A Cultural Justice Guidebook

by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

ISBN: 9780262047692

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 14, 2023

A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities.

White Sight

Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness

by Nicholas Mirzoeff

ISBN: 9780262047678

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 14, 2023

From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them.

Whiteness

by Martin Lund

ISBN: 9780262544191

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

The socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white.