Computational Literacies Lab

7: Identity, culture, and intersectionality

Week 7 (October 16)

Even when people understand themselves to have identities as computer scientists, it is seldom their primary identity. This week we consider several ways in which computer science interacts with identity categories such as race, gender, sexuality, language, and ability.

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Please read diSessa (2001), ch. 1 and Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, and Cain (1998), ch. 2.