Sisters in Science : Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science /
Author Diann Jordan took a journey to find out what inspired and daunted black women in their desire to become scientists in America. Letting 18 prominent black women scientists talk for themselves, Sisters in Science becomes an oral history stretching across decades and disciplines and desires. Fro...
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| Format: | Elektronički e-knjiga |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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West Lafayette, Ind. :
Purdue University Press,
2006.
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| Serija: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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- Inrtroduction: Timeline: Black women in science, mathematics, and engineering — Tables — Hattie Carwell : civil rights for all
- Yvonne Young Clark : still going strong
- Anna J. Coble : to the beat of her own drum
- Freddie M. Dixon : one of our own
- Elvira Doman : a class act
- Georgia Dunston : it's in my genes
- Evelyn Boyd Granville : destined to greater heights
- Shirley Ann Jackson : the sky is the limit
- Lynda M. Jordan : an unlikely scientist
- Shelia McClure : a woman's place
- Etheleen McGinnis-Hill : it's a good thing
- Jennie R. Patrick : rebel with a cause
- Jann Patrice Primus : her voice lives on
- Dolores Cooper Shockley : it's a family affair
- Rubye Torrey : just call me a scientist
- Geraldine W. Twitty : still on the battlefield
- LaVern Whisenton-Davidson : a passion for mosquito research
- Epilogue : continuing to tell the story.