Black Tech Ecosystems: How Black Adult Learners Use Computer Code Bootcamps for Liberation - Couverture souple

Byrd, Antonio

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1646427823 ISBN 13 : 9781646427826

Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2026

Synopsis

Black Tech Ecosystems reports on a year-long ethnographic study of low-income Black adult learners attending Clearwater Academy, a nonprofit computer code bootcamp that teaches coding literacy to help end racism and poverty. While Clearwater Academy offers pathways into a lucrative career that promotes Black social mobility and a diverse tech industry, Antonio Byrd describes a more complicated story. The core challenges of weak social-support networks, embedded cultures in tech, financial strains, and racism persistently present roadblocks to Clearwater Academy's Black adult learners' success. However, through this experience, Black adult learners develop new knowledge and frameworks that change their relationship with coding literacy and labor. Instead of solely focusing on learning computer programming for work, Black Tech Ecosystems describes a liberatory and transformative use of computer programming that centers Black lives instead of the tech industry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Colorado
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1646427823
• ISBN 13: 9781646427826
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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