AFS 220 Race and Technology

This course provides an introduction to the many ways in which science, technology, and race are constructed and construct each other. How do technologies express ethno-racial and gender politics reflected elsewhere in society? How do race and ethnicity shape technologies, technical design, and technology policies? We will examine how medical technologies, infrastructure, workplaces, and digital media platforms continue to reinscribe – and occasionally reinvent – racial categories and hierarchies. We will also explore counterexamples, including feminist and anti-racist thinkers and labs repurposing oppressive tools for liberatory applications. [GM1]

Cross Listed Courses

EGRS 220

Instructor

Rossmann