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Download or read book A Study of the Historical Role of African Americans in Science, Engineering and Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Brooks Slaughter
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418150
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Changing the Face of Engineering written by John Brooks Slaughter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can academic institutions, corporations, and policymakers foster African American participation and advancement in engineering? For much of America’s history, African Americans were discouraged or aggressively prevented from becoming scientists and engineers. Those who did enter STEM fields found that their inventions and discoveries were often neither recognized nor valued. Even today, particularly in the field of engineering, the participation of African American men and women is shockingly low, and some evidence indicates that the situation might be getting worse. In Changing the Face of Engineering, twenty-four eminent scholars address the underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering from a wide variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives while proposing workable classroom solutions and public policy initiatives. They combine robust statistical analyses with personal narratives of African American engineers and STEM instructors who, by taking evidenced-based approaches, have found success in graduating African American engineers. Changing the Face of Engineering argues that the continued underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering impairs the ability of the United States to compete successfully in the global marketplace. This volume will be of interest to STEM scholars and students, as well as policymakers, corporations, and higher education institutions.
Author : Robin Walker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781489518309
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Blacks and Science Volume Three written by Robin Walker and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did YOU know that a camera invented by a Black astrophysicist was used during the Apollo 16 space mission to collect ultraviolet images photographed from the moon?In fact did you know any of the following facts?• An early eighteenth century Virginia slave developed effective treatments against skin and venereal disease. In fact: 'His work was so outstanding that in 1729 the Virginia Legislature bought him from his owner, thus freeing him from slavery, to practice medicine exclusively'• Astronomical works by a late eighteenth century Black mathematician and astronomer were widely read and 'became a household staple in early America along with the Bible'• A nineteenth century African American blacksmith patented an invention described as 'the most important single invention in the whole history of whaling'• A nineteenth century inventor of Black South American heritage created such a revolution in the shoe industry, that it was said of him: 'What Edison is to artificial lighting, [he] is to footwear'• By 1913, African Americans held around 1,000 patents for various inventions in household goods, industrial machinery, transportation, electricity and chemical compounds• A Black physicist extended the Quantum Theory in the 1920s• Henry Ford described a Black botanist in the 1930s as 'the greatest living scientist'• Another Black chemist invented synthetic cortisone, an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis that broke the monopoly that European chemists had on the production of sterols• Twelve Black scientists and mathematicians worked on the Manhattan Project, i.e. the American nuclear bomb project, during World War II• A Black surgeon headed the blood bank system of the US and the UK during World War II• The research of a Black physicist and inventor of the 1960s may hold a key to addressing the main concerns of our times – dwindling sources of useable energy, rising energy costs, and increasing demand for energyFor too many people, it may be the first time that they had ever encountered such information. This is unfortunate. I believe that African and African Diasporan science history is a subject that has had too little attention paid to it. Some important writers have ventured into the field; Professor Ivan Van Sertima and his team, Mr J. A. Rogers, Mr Samuel Kennedy Yeboah, Dr Louis Haber, and Mr Hunter Havelin Adams III. My work synthesises and updates their findings. I also present the data in an easy to digest, bite-size way.This book is a general introduction to the role played by the African Americans in the evolution of the Space Sciences, Invention, Mathematics & Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Botany & Zoology, and Medicine & Surgery.
Author : Rayvon Fouché
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801873195
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation written by Rayvon Fouché and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In debunking some of the myths, including financial success and race pride, Fouch humanizes them and examines the greater significance of their work in the context of American sociological and commercial history." -- Booklist
Author : Bruce Sinclair
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262195041
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Technology and the African-American Experience written by Bruce Sinclair and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection of race and technology: blackcreativity and the economic and social functions of the myth ofdisengenuity.
Author : Carroll Pursell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262661993
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)
Download or read book A Hammer in Their Hands written by Carroll Pursell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the work of the skilled artisan and the ingenuity of the self-taught inventor. Although denied access through most of American history to many new technologies and to the privileged education of the engineer, African-Americans have been engaged with a range of technologies, as makers and as users, since the colonial era. A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans. Included in this rich and varied collection are a letter from Cotton Mather describing an early method of smallpox inoculation brought from Africa by a slave; selections from Frederick Douglass's autobiography and Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Confederate Patent Act, which barred slaves from holding patents; articles from 1904 by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois, debating the issue of industrial education for African-Americans; a 1924 article from Negro World, "Automobiles and Jim Crow Regulations"; a photograph of an all-black World War II combat squadron; and a 1998 presidential executive order on environmental justice. A Hammer in Their Hands and its companion volume of essays, Technology and the African-American Experience (MIT Press, 2004) will be essential references in an emerging area of study.
Author : Amy E. Slaton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674054639
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (546 download)
Download or read book Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U. S. Engineering written by Amy E. Slaton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the educational and professional advances made by minorities in recent decades, African Americans remain woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Even at its peak, in 2000, African American representation in engineering careers reached only 5.7 percent, while blacks made up 15 percent of the U.S. population. Some forty-five years after the Civil Rights Act sought to eliminate racial differences in education and employment, what do we make of an occupational pattern that perpetually follows the lines of race? Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering pursues this question and its ramifications through historical case studies. Focusing on engineering programs in three settings--in Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s--Amy E. Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. Her study reveals aspects of admissions criteria and curricular emphases that work against proportionate black involvement in many engineering programs. Slaton exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes--ideas and practices that are as limiting for the field of engineering as they are for the goal of greater racial parity in the profession.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309679540
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Impacts of Racism and Bias on Black People Pursuing Careers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the changing demographics of the nation and a growing appreciation for diversity and inclusion as drivers of excellence in science, engineering, and medicine, Black Americans are severely underrepresented in these fields. Racism and bias are significant reasons for this disparity, with detrimental implications on individuals, health care organizations, and the nation as a whole. The Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine was launched at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 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 Black women in science, medicine, and engineering. On April 16, 2020, the Roundtable convened a workshop to explore the context for their work; to surface key issues and questions that the Roundtable should address in its initial phase; and to reach key stakeholders and constituents. This proceedings provides a record of the workshop.
Author : Ivan Van Sertima
Publisher : Transaction Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780878559411
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Blacks in Science written by Ivan Van Sertima and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1983 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overview of the lost sciences of Africa and of contributions that blacks have made to modern American science, Blacks in Science presents a range of new information from Africanists. The book also includes bibliographical guides that are crucial to further research and teaching. The lineaments of a lost science are now emerging and we can glimpse some of the once buried reefs of this remarkable civilization. A lot more remains to be revealed. But enough has been found in the past few years to make it quite clear that the finest heart of the African world receded into the shadow while its broken bones were put on spectacular display. The image of the African, therefore, has been built up so far upon his lowest common denominator. In the new vision of the ancestor, we need to turn our eyes away from the periphery of the primitive to the more dynamic source of genius in the heartland of the African world. -- Ivan Van Sertima
Author : Louis Haber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152085667
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Black Pioneers of Science and Invention written by Louis Haber and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the lives of fourteen black scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions in the various fields of science and industry.
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195188055
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is a systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, contributors present a portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. --From publisher description.
Author : William Aspray
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319248111
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing written by William Aspray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.S. The work reviews the underlying causes, as well as the efforts of various nonprofit organizations to correct the situation, in order to both improve social equity and address the shortage of skilled workers in this area. Topics and features: presents a digest and historical overview of the relevant literature from a range of disciplines, including leading historical and social science sources; discusses the social and political factors that have affected the demographics of the workforce from the end of WWII to the present day; provides historical case studies on organizations that have sought to broaden participation in computing and the STEM disciplines; reviews the different approaches that have been applied to address underrepresentation, at the individual, system-wide, and pathway-focused level; profiles the colleges and universities that have been successful in opening up computer science or engineering to female students; describes the impact of individual change-agents as well as whole organizations.
Author : Raymond B. Webster
Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African American Firsts in Science & Technology written by Raymond B. Webster and published by Gale Research International, Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents capsule accounts of notable first achievements by African Americans, arranged in the categories "Agriculture and Everyday Life, " "Dentistry and Nursing, " "Life Science, " "Math and Engineering, " "Medicine, " "Physical Science, " and "Transportation."
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309159687
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals, we must invest in research, encourage innovation, and grow a strong and talented science and technology workforce. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation explores the role of diversity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce and its value in keeping America innovative and competitive. According to the book, the U.S. labor market is projected to grow faster in science and engineering than in any other sector in the coming years, making minority participation in STEM education at all levels a national priority. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation analyzes the rate of change and the challenges the nation currently faces in developing a strong and diverse workforce. Although minorities are the fastest growing segment of the population, they are underrepresented in the fields of science and engineering. Historically, there has been a strong connection between increasing educational attainment in the United States and the growth in and global leadership of the economy. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K-12 schools and school systems to increase minority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical training. The book also identifies best practices and offers a comprehensive road map for increasing involvement of underrepresented minorities and improving the quality of their education. It offers recommendations that focus on academic and social support, institutional roles, teacher preparation, affordability and program development.
Author : Robert E. Hayden
Publisher : Children's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780516078588
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Seven African-American Scientists written by Robert E. Hayden and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rufus Jimerson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727899283
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Black Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics written by Rufus Jimerson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of 1, presents Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mechanical (STEM) programs for the next generation that make a difference and travels to its cosmic origins, agenda, and alleged intervention through the ages. The history of our intellectual genius was suppressed and systemically discredited after the Aryan world invasion through African slavery in America and Jim Crow Era. Regardless, black minds continued to contribute to invention and technological progress irrespective of racial barriers by law and custom. Today, in the Age of Trump, these barriers are being systemically reinforced through court decisions rolling back our civil rights, cuts and underfunding of educational programs to develop competitive and great black minds in science, engineering, and other technological fields. Science is under duress by climate change deniers and white identity evangelism. Funding for career and technical education have been cut to facilitate donor-driven tax cuts for the wealthy and overfunded the military industrial complex. The worst cut by the Trump administration may be ensuring that diversity in science education and employment is maintained. Underrepresented minorities are again targets to increased exclusion from opportunities to engage in new discoveries and innovations on a global scale. Despite these efforts to reinforce white supremacy, the legacy of discoveries and inventions by innovators regardless of color, religion, gender, etc., prevail. Many of their accomplishments have been denied recognition. This book gives black contributors to STEM some of the credit they deserve. After recognizing award winning programs to ensure diversity in STEM given by colleges and universities, the book ties the genius displayed to its cosmic origins. Examined is whether the inhabitants of earth are part of the cosmic agenda. The book looks at Dogon legends of contact between their ancestors and extraterrestrials. The Dogon are cited as having taught early Egyptians, referred by inhabitants as Kemet or Land of the Blacks, their advanced civilization. A connection to Anunnaki, one of the Star People, is perused. Archeological evidence of the extraction of uranium ore in South Africa by an advanced civilization over 500,000 years ago is reviewed. The origin of our DNA, language, and civilization is traced to this continent. The connection to Star People from Orion is detailed. Dogon knowledge of String theory and the Big Bang theory is reviewed. Covered is how African hegemony seeded ancient civilization throughout the world, including Asia and the Americas. Included in this volume, is unsung black scientists, like their ancestors, who have made a difference in our society which has been historically hostile to people of color. Many of these groundbreaking inventors broke ground in racially separate society with steep barriers against their intellectual work. Inventors ranged from Thomas Jennings, Henry Blair and Norbert Rillieux through Hidden Figures in the Race for Space and Gerald Anderson Lawson, inventor of the first home game console. Also included i8n this volume is the story of Dr. Charles Drew who is responsible for creating the blood plasma that saved thousands of lives during World War II. These and other significant contributions by African-Americans to our progress is highlighted.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309100399
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rising Above the Gathering Storm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where advanced knowledge is widespread and low-cost labor is readily available, U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have begun to erode. A comprehensive and coordinated federal effort is urgently needed to bolster U.S. competitiveness and pre-eminence in these areas. This congressionally requested report by a pre-eminent committee makes four recommendations along with 20 implementation actions that federal policy-makers should take to create high-quality jobs and focus new science and technology efforts on meeting the nation's needs, especially in the area of clean, affordable energy: 1) Increase America's talent pool by vastly improving K-12 mathematics and science education; 2) Sustain and strengthen the nation's commitment to long-term basic research; 3) Develop, recruit, and retain top students, scientists, and engineers from both the U.S. and abroad; and 4) Ensure that the United States is the premier place in the world for innovation. Some actions will involve changing existing laws, while others will require financial support that would come from reallocating existing budgets or increasing them. Rising Above the Gathering Storm will be of great interest to federal and state government agencies, educators and schools, public decision makers, research sponsors, regulatory analysts, and scholars.
