Tag: meritocracy

• Technological Elites, the Meritocracy, and Post-Racial Myths in Silicon Valley

  7 July 2020

  Written by Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts on UCLA Published Works.

  “What we learn from consistently studying the discourses of Silicon Valley is that its successes come at the expense of a growing number of communities. The costs to these communities are masked by investments in an imagined post-racial, post-gender, post-class reality that is seemingly sympathetic to inclusion, but resists it in material, quantifiable and cultural terms.”

  Read ‘Technological Elites, the Meritocracy, and Post-Racial Myths in Silicon Valley’ on the UCLA Published Works site.

  Tagged with: meritocracy, racism, Silicon Valley.