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The Bullwhip's Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and America's Racial Caste System

The Bullwhip's Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and America's Racial Caste System

Bobb, Kamau
Fothergill, David

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringGeneral EducationGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $27.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 20, 2026

ISBN10: 0807023434
ISBN13: 9780807023433
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.25
Language: English
Kamau Bobb writes with a piercing clarity about race, history, and technology that does not comfort but confronts. His words do not allow you the luxury of distance. They leave you sharper, more aware, and undeniably changed about the AI crisis we are living through.--Bettina L. Love, author of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

A meditation on race, technology, and the fight for equitable education

Educated citizens are the lifeforce of democracy. Across all aspects of modern life, and especially in education, AI is raising existential questions. Like any new technology, it is both transformative and problematic.

In this smart exploration of tech, race, and society, Dr. Kamau Bobb meditates on the convergence of American memory and the promises of AI in education. At this critical milestone in American history, this book argues that enthusiasm and clamor for AI are a veil for the vacuous neglect of our nation's racist past. Bobb encourages readers to pause and examine the actual foundation on top of which the grand claims of AI's potential in education are being built, raising questions like:

  • How does AI change the fundamental structure of American education?
  • How does the application of AI enabled tools affect educational outcomes in schools that are profoundly segregated?
  • When the purveyors of these technologies claim that they will close gaps and improve the educational experience for all students, what does that really mean?

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