White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism (DiAngelo, 2018)
d1scit_admin2020-06-30T15:45:15-05:00This interview from CNN with author Robin DiAngelo explores white fragility and DiAngelo's 2018 book.
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On Being Black in Computing During These Days (Brown, 2020)
d1scit_admin2020-08-10T12:09:42-05:00Co-Founder of blackcomputeHER.org, Quincy Brown shares an open letter from Black computer scientists calling for community action.
#ShutDownSTEM and #ShutDownAcademia (June 10, 2020)
d1scit_admin2020-08-10T12:10:17-05:00#ShutDownSTEM on June 10. This link provides resources for non-Black STEM workers to understand structural racism in STEM and take action to eradicate it and for Black STEM colleagues to seek healing and self-care.
Anti-Racism Resources (Flicker & Klein, 2020)
d1scit_admin2020-08-10T12:10:52-05:00This document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein in May, 2020, is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now.
African Americans in evolutionary science: where we have been, and what’s next
d1scit_admin2020-07-28T08:30:30-05:00This commentary focuses on the factors that are associated with underrepresentation of African Americans in evolutionary science careers.
How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors’ Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates (Eaton, Saunders, Jacobson, & West, 2019)
d1scit_admin2020-08-10T12:29:19-05:00This paper's results highlight how understanding the underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in STEM requires examining both racial and gender biases as well as how they intersect.
21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge (Chisholm, 2014)
d1scit_admin2020-08-10T13:46:00-05:00For 21 days, do one action to further your understanding of power, privilege, supremacy, oppression, and equity.
Violence and economic activity: evidence from African American patents, 1870–1940 (Cook, 2014)
d1scit_admin2020-08-10T13:53:11-05:00This paper uses the rise in mass violence between 1870 and 1940 as an historical experiment for determining the impact of ethnic and political violence on economic activity, namely patenting. The findings imply that ethnic and political conflict may affect the level, direction, and quality of invention and economic growth over time.
