Racial Bias in Scientific Fields
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Birding While Black
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Science Has a Racism Problem
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Scientists Speak out Against Racial Injustice and Discrimination Amid Protests
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Following Outrage, Chemistry Journal Makes a Paper Decrying Diversity Disappear
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How Implicit Bias and Lack of Diversity Undermine Science
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Study Identifies a Key Reason Black Scientists are Less Likely to Receive NIH Funding
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What I Learned While Reporting on the Dearth of Black Mathematicians
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Earth Science Has a Whiteness Problem
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Blacks in STEM jobs are especially concerned about diversity and discrimination in the workplace
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(More) Bias in Science Hiring
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Task Force Outlines Changes Needed to Increase African American Physics and Astronomy Students
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Experiences of Black Doctoral Students Underscores Need to Increase Diversity in STEM Fields
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Racial and Gender Biases Plague Post Doc Hiring
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To Attract More Blacks and Hispanics to STEM, Universities Must Address Racial Issues on Campus
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Equal Opportunity Astronomy: Articles & Resources
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The Time is Now: Systemic Changes to Increase African Americans with Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics and Astronomy - Report from the American Institute of Physics TEAM-UP group, culminating in a list of recommendations for individual faculty, departments, or professional societies.
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Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, Angela P. Harris. A compilation of 40 stories and studies about the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color.
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Invisible Labor by Eric Anthony Grollman - Column about how faculty of color at Historically White Colleges and Universities often deal with disproportionate amounts of invisible labor, and gives advice on how to minimize this burden.
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Does STEM Stand Out? Examining Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Persistence Across Postsecondary Fields - Riegle-Crumb, King, & Irizarry (2019). National study showing that “Black and Latina/o youth who begin college as STEM majors are more likely to depart than their White peers.”
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Is Science for Us? Black Students’ and Parents’ Views of Science and Science Careers - Archer, Dewitt, & Osborne (2015). Draws on survey data to address “why science careers are less ‘thinkable’ for young black students” and considers implications for science education.
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How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors’ Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates - Eaton et al. (2019). Study showing that the perceived race and gender of a postdoctoral applicant’s name affects how an otherwise-identical CV is judged.
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Building an Inclusive AAS - The Critical Role of Diversity and Inclusion Training for AAS Council and Astronomy Leadership - Brinkworth et al. (2015). A paper laying out the case for diversity and inclusion training in professional societies; written for astronomy but much of the content is applicable to other fields.
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Dear Administrators: To Protect Your Faculty from Right-Wing Attacks, Follow the Money - Isaac Kamola. Discusses the coordinated efforts of far right groups to target Black faculty by weaponizing their institutions’ administrators against them
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Commentary: Disentangling anti-Blackness from physics
