Black Histories and Futures in STEM

Letting 18 prominent black women scientists talk for themselves, Sisters in Science becomes an oral history stretching across decades and disciplines and desires. From the first black woman to be awarded a B.S. in mechanical engineering to a microbiologist who is researching the genetic code for her race, Jordan has created a significant record of women who persevered to become firsts in many of their fields.

This pathbreaking book illuminates the scientific contributions, struggles, strategies, and triumphs of black women scientists, including more than 100 biographies in fields from anatomy and mathematics to psychology and zoology.

An intimate and sensitive psychological portrait, a well informed intellectual sketch, and an unusually readable scientific treatise, this biography of Carver has a depth and a breadth of research rarely found in such studies.

This exquisite story of the first black scientist is reproduced in masterful prose equally simple, accurate and appropriate. Here is a searching book that like a light suddenly thrown on in the darkness illuminates a long neglected scientific spirit struggling for recognition.

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine.

This is the absorbing story of Neil deGrasse Tyson's lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become the director of the Hayden Planetarium.

Fouche provides a nuanced view of African American contributions to - and relationships with - technology during a period of rapid industrialization and mounting national attention to the inequities of a separate-but-equal social order.