Book Recs

Tech Ethics

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler

Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence by Yarden Katz

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Cost of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks

A World Without Privacy: What Law Can and Should Do? edited by Austin Sarat

Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne

Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen K. Pao

Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy by Callum Cant

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu

Societal Inequality

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith

Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde

Design Ethics

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papenek

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock

Future Ethics by Cennyyd Bowles

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes

Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It by Mike Monteiro