BCaT offers a library of books on-site at our Lab. We use the website Librarika to manage this library. If you wish to check out a book from the list below, you will have to create a free account on librarika using this link: https://librarika.com/users/register.

Once you have created an account, you can then subscribe to the BCaT library. First, go to https://librarika.com/users/myLibraries to see your current list of libraries. Then request member access using the following URL: https://bcatlib.librarika.com. You will have access to the library’s catalog and be able to request books for check out. Once requested, you will receive an email detailing how to pick up the book from our library.

Book List:

Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks

Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism by Allissa V. V. Richardson

Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks by Sarah Florini

Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter by Charlton D. McIlwain

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life by Ruha Benjamin

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne

Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock

The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain by Francesca Sobande

Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by Andre Brock Jr.

Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports by Rayvon Fouche

#Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice by Sarah J. Jackson and Moya Bailey

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe

The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online by Safiya Umoja Noble and Brendesha M. Tynes

Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming by Kishonna L. Gray and Anita Sarkeesian

Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance by Moya Bailey

Necropolitics (Theory in Forms) by Achille Mbembe

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis by Katherine McKittrick

This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice by Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard