Black Histories and Futures in STEM

Prescod-Weinstein's vision of the cosmos is vibrant, inclusive and buoyantly non-traditional. The Disordered Cosmos is a vision for a world without prejudice that allows everyone to view the wonders of the universe through the same starry eyes.

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.

Americans have access to some of the best science education in the world, but too often black students are excluded from these opportunities. This essential book by leading voices in the field of education reform offers an inspiring vision of how America's universities can guide a new generation of African Americans to success in science.

The Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine was launched in 2019 to identify key levers, drivers, and disruptors in government, industry, health care, and higher education where actions can have the most impact on increasing the participation of Black men and women in STEM fields. This proceedings provides a record of the workshop convened in 2020 to explore the context of their work..

This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from a workshop convened in 2017 to better understand the factors that contribute to the low participation of Black men in the medical profession and facilitate discussion of current strategies used to increase their participation in medical education.

Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern black farmers and the organizations they formed.

This PhD dissertation investigated the career trajectories of mathematics professors of African heritage.The principal objective was to determine the factors that promoted self-efficacy, which made them complete a PhD in mathematics or an EdD in mathematics education regardless of the obstacles they encountered

This MA dissertation examines the role of America's first high school for black children in helping to shape the lives of notable students and teachers who have led the way in education, sports, women's history, politics, religion, military, entertainment, law, medicine, business, and black Greek lettered organizations.

Stock stories are akin to grand narratives that explain 'why things are' in ways that satisfy those in dominant positions. Frierson and Tate argue it is time to move beyond these. The purpose of the book is to provide historical, conceptual, and empirically-based analyses focused on the development of African Americans in STEM fields.