Imagination : A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin
| Article number: | 9781324020974 |
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In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.
A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isn’t a luxury. It is a vital resource and powerful tool for collective liberation.
Imagination isn't a luxury; it's a vital resource and a powerful tool for our collective liberation.
Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American studies and the founder of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton University. The author of Virtual Justice, Race After Technology, and People's Science, she lives in Princeton, New Jersey.