The Bullwhip's Algorithm

“I have waited for this book, not patiently but with the kind of urgency that comes from watching a nation refuse to see itself. I have long hoped that someone would help me, and help this country, reckon with how artificial intelligence and the digital future of America are not simply leaving Black people behind but are actively constructing a world where computing is imagined as the province of the rich and the white, while Black students are left with an education model that echoes the logics of the plantation. Kamau Bobb writes with a piercing clarity about race, history, and technology that does not comfort but confronts. His words do not allow you the luxury of distance. They leave you sharper, more aware, and undeniably changed about the AI crisis we are living through.” —Bettina L. Love, author of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal “The Bullwhip’s Algorithm is the perfect embodiment of its author’s AI: actual intelligence. Bobb brilliantly coded every sentence. From the prologue to the final page, meticulously handcrafted algorithms deliver impressive insights and useful guidance. This book is the race-conscious, equity-driven technological intervention that America and our educational systems desperately need right now.” —Shaun Harper, author of Let’s Talk About DEI: Productive Disagreements About America’s Most Polarizing Topics