{"id":19417,"date":"2020-06-15T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19417"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:56","slug":"black-computer-scientists-including-u-m-professors-call-to-dismantle-racism-in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/15\/black-computer-scientists-including-u-m-professors-call-to-dismantle-racism-in-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Black computer scientists, including U-M professors, call to dismantle racism in the field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-700x385.png\" alt=\"Black in Computing and Our Allies for Equity and Fairness\" class=\"wp-image-19418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-700x385.png 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-200x110.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-665x366.png 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM.png 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.engin.umich.edu\/2020\/06\/black-computer-scientists-including-u-m-professors-call-to-dismantle-racism-in-the-field\/\">Signers of an open letter raise the alarm on interpersonal and institutional racism as well as racial bias occurring from improper development and use of computing technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A coalition of black computer scientists has drafted an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blacksincomputingopenlettercommunity.wordpress.com\/\">open letter to the computing community<\/a>, calling for action to address systemic and structural inequities. They ask for equal partnership in the leadership of the field and the development of systemic fairness\u2014in alignment with the ideal of equal opportunity, one of the nation\u2019s core values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, a professor of computer science and engineering at U-M, and Tawanna Dillahunt, an associate professor of information, contributed to the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to naming the many forms of interpersonal and institutional discrimination experienced by black computer scientists, the writers and signers raise the alarm about racial bias occurring from improper development and use of computing technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signers of an open letter raise the alarm on interpersonal and institutional racism as well as racial bias occurring from improper development and use of computing technology. A coalition of black computer scientists has drafted an&nbsp;open letter to the computing community, calling for action to address systemic and structural inequities. They ask for equal partnership in the leadership\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/15\/black-computer-scientists-including-u-m-professors-call-to-dismantle-racism-in-the-field\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-19417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-people"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM.png",858,472,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-200x110.png",200,110,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-300x165.png",300,165,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-768x422.png",665,365,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-700x385.png",600,330,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM.png",858,472,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM.png",858,472,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-658x300.png",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM-665x366.png",665,366,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-8.31.06-AM.png",400,220,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Signers of an open letter raise the alarm on interpersonal and institutional racism as well as racial bias occurring from improper development and use of computing technology. A coalition of black computer scientists has drafted an&nbsp;open letter to the computing community, calling for action to address systemic and structural inequities. They ask for equal partnership&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19419,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions\/19419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}