CI Studies Bibliography – Race and Ethnicity – Critical Infrastructure Studies.org

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Pritchard, Helen V., and Femke Snelting. Infrastructural Interactions Workbook. Brussels: TITiPI (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest), 2022. https://titipi.org/pub/Infrastructural_Interactions.pdf. Cite

Frishman, Richard. “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation.” The New York Times, 2020, sec. Travel. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/travel/ghosts-of-segregation.html. Cite

Wasserman, Sarah. “Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, and the Persistence of Urban Forms.” PMLA 135, no. 3 (2020): 530–45. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.3.530. Cite

McIlwain, Charlton D. Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cite

Nobel, Safiya Umoja. “The Loss of Public Goods To Big Tech.” NOEMA, 2020. https://www.noemamag.com/the-loss-of-public-goods-to-big-tech/. Cite

LaDuke, Winona, and Deborah Cowen. “Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure.” South Atlantic Quarterly 119, no. 2 (2020): 243–68. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8177747. Cite

Hurley, Jessica. Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/infrastructures-of-apocalypse. Cite

Brown, Adrienne R. The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/56718. Cite

Brock, André L. Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures. Critical Cultural Communication. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Cite

Benjamin, Ruha. Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Medford, MA: Polity, 2019. Cite

Nobel, Safiya Umoja. “Toward a Critical Black Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/5aafe7fe-db7e-4ec1-935f-09d8028a2687#ch02. Cite

Sarkar, Sreela. “A Mission to Converge for Inclusion? The Smart City and the Women of Seelampur.” Media, Culture & Society, 2019, 016344371881090. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718810905. Cite

Ferguson, M., H.E. Roberts, R.R.C. McEachan, and M. Dallimer. “Contrasting Distributions of Urban Green Infrastructure across Social and Ethno-Racial Groups.” Landscape and Urban Planning 175 (2018): 136–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.03.020. Cite

Rukeyser, Muriel, and Catherine Venable Moore. The Book of the Dead. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2018. Cite

DeMull, Marisa. “It’s Time for Transportation Engineers to Address Racial Equity.” Alta Planning + Desgn, 2018. https://blog.altaplanning.com/its-time-for-transportation-engineers-to-address-racial-equity-edfd183798f6. Cite

Miller, Johnny. “Roads to Nowhere: How Infrastructure Built on American Inequality.” The Guardian (London), 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality. Cite

James-Wilson, Symon. “Roads, Routes, And Roots: The (Im)Possible Spatial Mnemonics Of Black Infrastructure.” Society and Space, 2018. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/roads-routes-and-roots-the-im-possible-spatial-mnemonics-of-black-infrastructure. Cite

Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: New York University Press, 2018. https://nyupress.org/books/9781479837243/. Cite

Misra, Tanvi. “Bike Advocacy’s Blind Spot.” CityLab, 2018. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/07/is-bike-infrastructure-enough/565271/. Cite

Leker, Hannah Gordon, and Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson. “Relationship between Race and Community Water and Sewer Service in North Carolina, USA.” PLOS ONE 13, no. 3 (2018): e0193225. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193225. Cite

Hunter, Marcus Anthony, and Zandria F. Robinson. Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. Cite

Urban Omnibus. “Intersections,” 2018. https://urbanomnibus.net/series/intersections/#surfacing. Cite

Mattern. “Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge.” Public Knowledge, 2018. https://publicknowledge.sfmoma.org/local-codes-forms-of-spatial-knowledge. Cite

Goldstein, Joseph. “Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination.” The New York Times, 2018, sec. World. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/world/africa/kenya-china-racism.html. Cite

Schwab, Katharine. “The Racist Roots Of ‘Urban Renewal’ And How It Made Cities Less Equal.” FastCompany, 2018. https://www.fastcompany.com/90155955/the-racist-roots-of-urban-renewal-and-how-it-made-cities-less-equal. Cite

Dyson, Torkwase. “Black Interiority: Notes on Architecture, Infrastructure, Environmental Justice, and Abstract Drawing.” Pelican Bomb, 2017. https://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2017/black-interiority-notes-on-architecture-infrastructure-environmental-justice-and-abstract-drawing. Cite

Anand, Nikhil. “The Banality of Infrastructure.” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences, Social Science Research Council, 2017. https://items.ssrc.org/the-banality-of-infrastructure/. Cite

Duarte, Marisa Elena. Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country. Indigenous Confluences. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. Cite

Austin, Algernon. “Infrastructure Priorities for Racial Equity: How The People’s Budget Helps and Trump’s Budget Hurts.” Demos, 2017. https://www.demos.org/blog/5/2/17/infrastructure-priorities-racial-equity-how-people%E2%80%99s-budget-helps-and-trump%E2%80%99s-budget-hur. Cite

Grassroots Policy Project. “Building Social Movement Infrastructure.” Racial Equity Tools, 2017. http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/socialmovement_infrastructure.pdf. Cite

Rogers, Kaleigh. “Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit’s Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet.” Motherboard (blog), 2017. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-mesh-network. Cite

Nguyen, Hoa-Thi-Minh, Tom Kompas, Trevor Breusch, and Michael B. Ward. “Language, Mixed Communes, and Infrastructure: Sources of Inequality and Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam.” World Development 96 (2017): 145–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.03.004. Cite

Mapping Prejudice Project, University of Minnesota. “Mapping Prejudice: Visualizing the Hidden Histories of Race and Privilege in Minneapolis,” 2017. https://www.mappingprejudice.org/. Cite

Hendricks, Marccus. “Understanding the Unprecedented: Social Vulnerability, Infrastructure Failure, and Catastrophe.” Natural Hazards Center, 2017. https://hazards.colorado.edu/news/research-counts/understanding-the-unprecedented-social-vulnerability-infrastructure-failure-and-catastrophe. Cite

Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago. “Urban America Forward: ‘Infrastructure Equity.’” Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago, 2017. https://csrpc.uchicago.edu/programs/public_programs/urban_america_forward/infrastructure_equity/. Cite

Bornstein, Aaron M. “Are Algorithms Building the New Infrastructure of Racism?” Nautilus, no. December 21, 2017 (2017). http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/are-algorithms-building-the-new-infrastructure-of-racism. Cite

Nemser, Daniel. Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico. First edition. Border Hispanisms. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Cite

Mundahl, Erin. “How Does D.C. Have to Balance Race When Considering Its Transportation Infrastructure?” InsideSources, 2017. https://www.insidesources.com/dc-balance-race-transportation-infrastructure/. Cite

Von Schnitzler, Antina. Democracy’s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Cite

Christie, Michael. “Words, Ontologies and Aboriginal Databases.” Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X0511600107. Cite

MacGillis, Alec. “The Third Rail.” Places Journal, 2016. https://doi.org/10.22269/160321. Cite

Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. “Transportation for All: Good for Families, Communities and the Economy.” Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice / PolicyLink, 2016. https://charleshamiltonhouston.org/research/transportation-good-families-communities-economy/. Cite

Gupta-Nigam, Anirban. “Black Infrastructure: Media and the Trap of Visibility.” Media Fields Jouirnal, 2016. http://mediafieldsjournal.squarespace.com/black-infrastructure/. Cite

Kim, Jina B. Anatomy of the City: Race, Infrastructure, and U.S. Fictions of Dependency (Dissertation). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, Deep Blue Repository, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133499. Cite

Halley, Catherine. “On The Black Skyscraper: An Interview with Literary Critic Adrienne Brown.” JSTOR Daily, 2016. https://daily.jstor.org/black-skyscraper-interview-adrienne-brown/. Cite

Wilson, Ara. “The Infrastructure of Intimacy.” Signs 41, no. 2 (2016): 247–80. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/682919?mobileUi=0. Cite

Rana, Junaid. “The Racial Infrastructure of the Terror-Industrial Complex.” Social Text 34, no. 4 129 (2016): 111–38. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3680894. Cite

Voyles, Traci Brynne. Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Cite

Ramey, Corinne. “America’s Unfair Rules of the Road.” Slate Magazine, 2015. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/02/americas-transportation-system-discriminates-against-minorities-and-poor-federal-funding-for-roads-buses-and-mass-transit-still-segregates-americans.html. Cite

Office of Minority Health, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Washington, D.C, 2015. https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/assets/pdf/FINAL_HHS_Action_Plan_Progress_Report_11_2_2015.pdf. Cite