Dr. Cynthia Lee, a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, has compiled an exceptional list of resources on race and gender. The resources are included below, by kind permission of Dr. Lee.
Books
Janet Abbate, Recoding Gender : Women’s Changing Participation in Computing
Emily Chang, Brotopia
R. W. Connell, Masculinities
Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqt3ic56-rc
Mar Hicks, Programmed Inequality
An Xiao Mina, Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest & Power (in press)
Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppressionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVZozEEWlE
Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Ellen Pao, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
David N. Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park, The Silicon Valley of Dreams Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy
Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures
Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Agehttps://youtu.be/ZhBLwsRJPFQ
Hal Abelson, Harry Lewis, and Ken Ledeen; Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindnesshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow
Sheila Jasanoff, The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future
Clyde Ford, Think Black: A Memoirhttps://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-20/ibm-nazi-germany-tech-…
Ruha Benjamin, Captivating Technologyhttps://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-0381-6_601.pd…
Review praised by Dr. Benjamin: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ruha-benjamin-race-after-tech…
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justicehttps://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-justice
Morgan G. Ames, The Charisma Machinehttps://mitpress.mit.edu/books/charisma-machine
Christina Dunbar-Hester, Hacking Diversityhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691192888/hacking-diver…
Frameworks authors/readings
Carol Gilligan, In a Different VoiceEthics of care
John Stuart MillUtilitarianism/consequentialism
Judith Butler3rd wave feminism
Audre Lorde, "Age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference"
https://www.colorado.edu/odece/sites/default/files/attached-files/rba09…
Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment”http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html
John Rawls, "Theory of Justice"http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/chalmersk/econ184sp09/johnrawls.pdf
D. Soyini Madison, Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance
https://iu.instructure.com/files/56236339/download?download_frd=1&verif…
Martin Luther King Jr, “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Malcom X, "The Ballot or the Bullet"http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html
Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
Ijeoma Oluo, "So You Want to Talk About Race"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnybJZRWipg
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed(for students who want to create K12 curricula for their final project)
Articles (scholarly, popular press, personal essay)
A.T. Wynn and S.J. Correll, "Puncturing the pipeline: Do technology companies alienate women in recruiting sessions?"http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306312718756766
Kathryn McKinley, 'What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You"https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-to-most-of-y…
Shireen Mitchell and Jon Pincus, "Diversity-friendly software at SXSW 2017"
https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/diversity-friendly-software-at-sx…
Julia Angwin et al., "Machine Bias"https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-cri…
Steve Henn, “When women stopped coding”
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stop…
Adrienne LaFrance, “Why Do So Many Digital Assistants Have Feminine Names?”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/why-do-so-many-d…
Voigt et al., “Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect”http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/30/1702413114
Elora Israni, “When an Algorithm Helps Send You to Prison”https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/algorithm-compas-sentencing-…
The Economist editorial staff, “The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore”
https://www.economist.com/international/2017/08/19/the-e-mail-larry-pag…
Cynthia Lee on the Google Memo
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-t…
Godwin, Potvin, Hazari, Lock “Identity, Critical Agency, and Engineering: An Affective Model for Predicting Engineering as a Career Choice”https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jee.20118
Tracy Chou, "“I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on Silicon Valley sexism"
https://qz.com/659196/i-had-so-many-advantages-and-i-barely-made-it-pin…
Ben Williams, "Debugging Code(Switching): My Experiences as a Black Computer Science Student at Stanford University"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/debugging-codeswitching-my-experiences-b…
Alona King, "No, I Am Not Lost A Black woman’s experience in the Stanford Computer Science Major"https://www.theodysseyonline.com/black-women-in-tech
Kaya Thomas, "What it’s Like to Be a Black Woman in Tech: A Q&A with Kaya Thomas"https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/like-black-woman-tech-qa-kaya-thomas/
Kaya Thomas, "Invisible Talent" (responding to Georgia Wells "Facebook Blames Lack of Available Talent for Diversity Problem" in WSJ)https://shift.newco.co/2016/07/15/Invisible-Talent/#.sparduq8z
Erin Biba, "What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-its-like-when-elon-musks-twitter-mob…
Peter Balonon-Rosen and Lizzie O'Leary, "How women landed the invisible work of social media labor"
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/06/01/business/how-women-landed-invisi…
Sepehr Vakil, "Ethics, Identity, and Political Vision Toward a Justice-Centered Approach to Equity in Computer Science Education"
http://hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-88-nu…
Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Design Justice: Towards an Intersectional Feminist Framework for Design Theory and Practice"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3189696
Jessica Guynn, "Silicon Valley's race gap is getting worse, not better, new research shows"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/10/03/diversity-and-silic…
Susan Sibley “Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field?”https://hbr.org/2016/08/why-do-so-many-women-who-study-engineering-leav…
Noam Cohen, "We're All Nerds Now"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/sunday-review/were-all-nerds-now.html
Betsy DiSalvo et al. "African American Males Constructing Computing Identity"http://betsydisalvo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/p2967-disalvo.pdf
Betsy DisSalvo "Gaming Masculinity: Constructing Masculinity with Video Games"
http://betsydisalvo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DBMK_DiSalvo_Gaming_…
Kristin A. Searle and Yasmin B. Kafai, "Boys' Needlework: Understanding Gendered and Indigenous Perspectives on Computing and Crafting with Electronic Textiles"
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305426244_Boys'_Needlework_Und…
Fred Turner (interview), "Don't Be Evil: Fred Turner on Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers"https://logicmag.io/03-dont-be-evil/
Jonathan McIntosh, "Playing with Privilege: the invisible benefits of gaming while male"
https://www.polygon.com/2014/4/23/5640678/playing-with-privilege-the-in…
Adewole S. Adamson and Avery Smith, "Machine Learning and Health Care Disparities in Dermatology"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dnj8izvVYAAGb8w.jpg:large
Richard F. Martell, David M. Lane, and Cynthia Emrich, "Male-Female Differences: A Computer Simulation"http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/papers/male_female.pdf
Ian Gent, "The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is NOT an Attack on Men"http://blog.ian.gent/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html
Michael Feldman et al., "Certifying and removing disparate impact"https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3756
Sorelle A. Friedler et al., "A comparative study of fairness-enhancing interventions in machine learning"https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04422
Danielle Ensign et al., "Decision making with limited feedback"http://proceedings.mlr.press/v83/ensign18a.html
Sorelle A. Friedler et al, "On the (im)possibility of fairness"https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07236
Moritz Hardt, "How Big Data is Unfair"https://medium.com/@mrtz/how-big-data-is-unfair-9aa544d739de
Dale Beran, "Gamergate: Anon Defends his Safe Spaces" (Part 4 of "4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump")
https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-tru…
Allison Master and Andrew N. Meltzoff, "Building bridges between psychological science and education: Cultural stereotypes, STEM, and equity"
http://ilabs.uw.edu/sites/default/files/17Master_Meltzoff_STEM%20Stereo…
Universal principles of data ethics: 12 guidelines for developing ethics codes
https://www.accenture.com/t20160629T012639Z__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-24…
Linda Yang, "Fighting Silicon Valley Sexism as a Queer Woman" interview of Leanne Pittsford
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/7x757e/lesbians-who-tech-workpla…
Chas Danner, "More Than Half of Russian Facebook Ads Focused on Race"
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/more-than-half-of-russian-facebo…
Gillian B. White, "When Algorithms Don’t Account for Civil Rights"
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/facebook-ad-discri…
S. Cheryan et al. "Ambient belonging: How stereotypical cues impact gender participation in computer science."https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19968418
Daisuke Wakabayashi "Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/technology/meet-the-people-who-train…
Dave Lee, "Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving cars"https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46055595
Kate Losse, "The Male Gazed: Surveillance, Power, and Gender"https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-male-gazed
Lisa Nakamura, "Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture"
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/mo…
Paxton Scott, "Startup vulnerability leaves queer student data exposed"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/11/19/queer-chart-startup-exposes-st…
Disucss responsibility when businesses enter spaces with vulnerable populations.
Edward Ongweso Jr, "‘Significant Racial Bias’ Found in National Healthcare Algorithm Affecting Millions of People"
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne859z/significant-racial-bias-found…
Algorithm bias: Amazon scraps sexist AI resume analyzer
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/a…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/11/tech-gender-problem-…
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-16/amazon-s-gender-bias…
Interface bias/Algorithm bias and voting rights
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/politics/north-dakota-voter-ident…
https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2018/10/22/georgia-and-t…
Melisha Dsouza, "NIPS Foundation decides against name change as poll finds it an unpopular superficial move; instead increases ‘focus on diversity and inclusivity initiatives’"
https://hub.packtpub.com/nips-foundation-decides-against-name-change-as…
Jake Swearingen, "Unable to Avoid Bias, Gmail Stops Using Gender in Its Automated Replies"
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/unable-to-stop-bias-gmail-avoids…
AI Now Institution 2019 Report (multiple authors)https://ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2019_Report.pdf
Penelope Phippen, "Changing your name is a hard unsolved problem in Computer Science"
https://dev.to/penelope_zone/changing-your-name-is-a-hard-unsolved-prob…
Michelle Goldberg, "Techlash Hits College Campuses"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/style/college-tech-recruiting.html?s…
Lauren Alfrey and France Winddance Twine, "Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating Inequality Regimes in the Tech Industry"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891243216680590
Adrienne Shaw, "Do you identify as a gamer? Gender, race, sexuality, and gamer identity"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1461444811410394
Kate Conger and Noam Scheiber, "The Great Google Revolt"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/18/magazine/google-revolt.h…
Nathan Ensmenger. “Beards, Sandals, and Other Signs of Rugged Individualism: Masculine Culture within the Computing Professions."https://doi.org/10.1086/682955
June Park John, "The case of computer science education, employment, gender, and race/ethnicity in Silicon Valley, 1980–2015"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639080.2019.1679728
"However, these demographic shifts are not always consistent with either a pipeline argument that there are insufficient supplies of potential underrepresented programmers or a wage explanation. Hispanic males, for example, have had increasing rates of computer science degree completions yet decreasing representation in the programmer labour force. On the other hand, White females have had decreasing representation among both degrees and the labour force despite comparatively high wages in the technology sector. The persistent and increasing race and gender gaps suggest that policies to attract underrepresented groups need to be differentiated by the group and may require significant changes in industry culture to increase the representation of these groups."
Roli Varmahttp://www.unm.edu/~varma/publications.html
Lots of work on Indian American labor in US tech and academia, intersectional analysis
Sarah-Jane Leslie et al. "Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262.abstract
Joseph Cimpian, "Math-intensive fields have a gender problem: The men are worse at math"
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2020/09/18/math-…?
Jessica Guynn, "Facebook diversity report: Efforts still failing Black and Hispanic employees, especially women"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/07/15/facebook-diversity-afric…
Mar Hicks, "When Winning is Losing: Why the Nation that Invented the Computer Lost its Edge"https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2018/10/mco2018100048/17D45WH…
Mar Hicks, "Built to Last"https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/
Sarah Blaskey et al., "How the Trump campaign used big data to deter Miami-Dade’s Black communities from voting"https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article246429000.h…
Videos/Multimedia
Anthony D. Mays, "How I Went From Compton to Google" (Produced by Ryann Graham, Jessica Massa)https://www.buzzfeed.com/watch/video/46331?utm_term=.nuwJJLaB8W#.rpKrrO…
Hailey Knox, "Geeks"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWX5kXHazbE
Jonathan McIntosh, "The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-hOigoxHs
Jonathan McIntosh, "The Complicity of Geek Masculinity on the Big Bang Theory"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7NRONADJ4
Jonathan McIntosh, "The Face of Gaming: 40 Male Protagonists Featured at E3 2014"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85M3LnoHz6o
Vi Hart and Nicky Case, "Parable of the Polygons"https://ncase.me/polygons/
Adam Conover, "The Disturbing History of the Suburbs"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETR9qrVS17g
Karen Ashcraft, "The Glass Slipper"https://vimeo.com/160279021
Joy Buolamwini, "AI, Ain't I a Woman?" (spoken word)https://youtu.be/QxuyfWoVV98
Audrey Carlsen and Fahima Haque, "What Does Facebook Consider Hate Speech? Take Our Quiz"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/13/technology/facebook-hate…
André L. Brock, "“My Constellation is Space”: Towards a Theory of Black Cyberculture"
https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018-12-04/my-constellation-space-towa…
Nancy Douyon, interview about life in Silicon Valleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o7ktu2QSgE
Ruha Bejnamin, "Are Robots Racist?"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j80s8kjm63erf70/Ruha%20Benjamin%20Guest%20Lec…
Amira Virgil (interview by AJ+), "Black Representation in The Sims"https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/1001518806656293/
Resources
Shireen Mitchell, anti-online harassment research and advocacyhttp://stoponlinevaw.com/
Cynthia Lee, "What can I do today to create a more inclusive community in CS?"http://bit.ly/inclusivecs
Joy Rankin, Queens of Codehttps://www.ladyscience.com/queens-of-code/
Code 2040http://www.code2040.org/
National Center for Women in Information Technologyhttps://www.ncwit.org/
Anita Borghttps://anitab.org/
Coraline Ada Ehmke, The Contributor Covenanthttps://www.contributor-covenant.org/
Google's training module on machine learning bias and fairnesshttps://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/fairness/vi…
Lea Coligado, Women of Silicon Valleyhttps://medium.com/@WomenOfSiliconValley
Latinas in STEMhttp://www.latinasinstem.com/resources.html
AfroTechhttps://afrotech.com/
ACM Code of Ethicshttps://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
Coraline Ada Ehmke "The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto"https://postmeritocracy.org/
Project Includehttp://projectinclude.org/
Black Girls Codehttp://www.blackgirlscode.com/
Latinx in Tech (Kapor Center)https://www.kaporcenter.org/event/ltx-latinx-in-tech/
Kapor Centerhttps://www.kaporcenter.org/
Lesbians Who Techhttps://lesbianswhotech.org/
#ShutDownSTEM anti-racism in academia reading listhttps://www.shutdownstem.com/racism-in-academia