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THE NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENTSIA
THE NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENTSIA

“The New Artificial Intelligentsia” (2024) in Los Angeles Review of Books (link)

RESISTING BORDERS & TECHNOLOGIES OF VIOLENCE
RESISTING BORDERS & TECHNOLOGIES OF VIOLENCE

Foreword to “Resisting Borders & Technologies of Violence” (2024) edited by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi + Coline Schupfer.

Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice
Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice

“Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice” (2022), coauthored with Greta Byrum (paper).

Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation
Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation

Afterword to “Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom” by Nettrice Gaskins.

Theory & Event
Theory & Event

Chapter “Mask” in “Theory & Event” Vol 25, No.1

The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection
The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection

“Parable of the Black Designer” (2022) in The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection (foreword).

The Shiny, High-Tech Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
The Shiny, High-Tech Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

“The Shiny, High-Tech Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”, (2021) Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons. (chapter)

Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection
Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection

“Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection”, (2020) Hybrid Pedagogy. (foreword)

The New Jim Code
The New Jim Code

“The New Jim Code” (Chapter) pg. 211-214 in “Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives” (2020)

Assessing Risk, Automating Racism
Assessing Risk, Automating Racism

“Assessing Risk, Automating Racism,” (2019) Science Vol 366, Issue 6464. (paper)

PROPHETS AND PROFITS OF RACIAL SCIENCE
PROPHETS AND PROFITS OF RACIAL SCIENCE

“Prophets and Profits of Racial Science.” (2018) Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 41-53. (abstract)

BLACK AFTERLIVES MATTER
BLACK AFTERLIVES MATTER

“Black Afterlives Matter: Cultivating Kinfulness as Reproductive Justice,” (2018) in Making Kin Not Population, edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway. Prickly Paradigm Press. (Republished in Boston Review) 

CULTURA OBSCURA
CULTURA OBSCURA

“Cultura Obscura: Race, Power, and “Culture Talk” in the Health Sciences.” (2017) American Journal of Law & Medicine Vol 43: 2-3, 225-238. (paper).

WHAT DO WE OWE EACH OTHER?
WHAT DO WE OWE EACH OTHER?

“What Do We Owe Each Other? Moral Debts and Racial Distrust in Experimental Stem Cell Science,” (2017) Ch6 in Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine, Ehlers & Hinkson, eds. University of Minnesota Press.

TOWARD A JUSTICE-BASED BIOETHICS
TOWARD A JUSTICE-BASED BIOETHICS

“Informed Refusal: Toward a Justice-based Bioethics.” (2016) Science, Technology, and Human Values. (paper).

CRITICAL RACE STS AND THE CARCERAL IMAGINATION
CRITICAL RACE STS AND THE CARCERAL IMAGINATION

Catching Our Breath: Critical Race STS and the Carceral Imagination. (2016) Engaging Science, Technology, and Society Vol.2, pp.145-156 (paper).

IF RACE IS A TECHNOLOGY
IF RACE IS A TECHNOLOGY

“Innovating Inequity: If Race is a Technology, Postracialism is the Genius Bar.” (2016) Ethnic and Racial Studies. (paper).

DESIGNER AND DISCARDED GENOMES
DESIGNER AND DISCARDED GENOMES

“Designer and Discarded Genomes: An Experiment with Speculative Methods Over Time.” (2016) e-flux. (paper).

MOLECULARIZATION OF IDENTITY
MOLECULARIZATION OF IDENTITY

“Molecularization of Identity: Science & Subjectivity in the 21st Century.” (2016) Genetics Research (summary paper).

RACIAL FICTIONS, BIOLOGICAL FACTS
RACIAL FICTIONS, BIOLOGICAL FACTS

“Racial Fictions, Biological Facts: Expanding the Sociological Imagination through Speculative Methods.” (2016) Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. (paper).

INTERROGATING EQUITY
INTERROGATING EQUITY

“Interrogating Equity: A Disability Justice Approach to Human Gene-Editing.” (2016) National Academies of Science. Issues in Science and Technology Vol. 32, Issue 3 (paper)

THE EMPEROR’S NEW GENES
THE EMPEROR’S NEW GENES

“The Emperor’s New Genes: Science, Public Policy, and the Allure of Objectivity”. (2015) Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 661: 130-142. (paper)

REIMAGINING (BIO)MEDICALIZATION
REIMAGINING (BIO)MEDICALIZATION

“Racial Destiny or Dexterity? The Global Circulation of Genomics as an Empowerment Idiom”, (2015) in  Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements, edited by Susan Bell and Anne Figert, Ch.10. (abstract)

RACE FOR CURES
RACE FOR CURES

“Race for Cures: Rethinking the Racial Logics of ‘Trust’ in Biomedicine.” (2014) Sociology Compass, Vol. 8, Issue 6, pp. 755-769. (paper)

CONJURING DIFFERENCE, CONCEALING INEQUALITY
CONJURING DIFFERENCE, CONCEALING INEQUALITY

“Conjuring Difference, Concealing Inequality.” (2014) Review Essay of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America by Karen Fields and Barbara Fields. Theory & Society Vol. 43 (6): 683-688 (paper).

ORGANIZED AMBIVALENCE (REPRINTED)
ORGANIZED AMBIVALENCE (REPRINTED)

“Organized Ambivalence: When Stem Cell Research and Sickle Cell Disease Converge,” (2012) Ch. 11 in Genetics and Global Public Health: Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, Simon Dyson and Karl Atkin, eds. Routledge.

PEOPLE’S SCIENCE
PEOPLE’S SCIENCE

People’s Science: Bodies & Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) (Stanford University Press). (description).

ORGANIZED AMBIVALENCE
ORGANIZED AMBIVALENCE

“Organized Ambivalence: When Stem Cell Research and Sickle Cell Disease Converge.” (2011)  Ethnicity & Health, 15 (4-5): 447-463. (paper)

A LAB OF THEIR OWN
A LAB OF THEIR OWN

“A Lab of Their Own: Genomic Sovereignty as Postcolonial Science Policy.” (2009) Policy & Society 28 (4): 341-355. (paper)

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