Race, Racism, Digital Tech

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course examines the impact of race and racism in the design and usage of digital technologies. We will frame this course through the historical precedents that perpetuate systemic discrimination and harm in digital technologies to the trajectory of current and future implications. To counter, we will also forefront the ways Black and indigenous communities have challenged the oft-touted universality of digital technologies design and usage. Additionally, this course will survey the intersection of race and digital technologies by concentrating on the ethics of “big data” and privacy, racial justice, gender and sexuality, access and disability, and sustainability and environmental justice impact our social and political existence.