Dr. Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

[5] A review in The Nation noted that,[6] “What’s ultimately distinctive about Race After Technology is that its withering critiques of the present are so galvanizing.

The field Benjamin maps is treacherous and phantasmic, full of obstacles and trip wires whose strength lies in their invisibility.

But each time she pries open a black box, linking the present to some horrific past, the future feels more open-ended, more mutable…This is perhaps Benjamin’s greatest feat in the book: Her inventive and wide-ranging analyses remind us that as much as we try to purge ourselves from our tools and view them as external to our flaws, they are always extensions of us.

These digital tools predictably replicate and deepen racial hierarchies — all too often strengthening rather than undermining pervasive systems of racial and social control.”Race After Technology won the 2020 Oliver Cox Cromwell Book Prize[2] awarded by the American Sociological Association Section on Race & Ethnic Relations, 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Award for Nonfiction,[3] and Honorable Mention for the 2020 Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Book Award.