While there are many studies of racism and racial inequality at the macro level of analysis, there has been little work done on the experience of everyday racism for black people. Philomena Essed's brilliant work fills this gap.The book compares contemporary racism in the US and…
This book compares contemporary racism in the US and the Netherlands through in-depth interviews with fifty-five black women. As an interdisciplinary analysis of gendered social constructions of racism, it breaks new ground. Essed problematizes and reinterprets many of the meani…
Beyond bias and barriers: fulfilling the potential of women in academic sci…
by Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.), Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (U.S.)
fromOnline access: National Academy of Sciences National Academ…
The United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. To maintain its scientific and engineering leadership amid increasing economic and educational globalization, the United States must aggressively pursue the innovative capacity …
Beyond bias and barriers: fulfilling the potential of women in academic sci…
by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of Engineering, Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (U.S.), National Academies, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy
The United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. To maintain its scientific and engineering leadership amid increasing economic and educational globalization, the United States must aggressively pursue the innovative capacity …
Women scientists and engineers face barriers to success in every field of science and engineering, a record that deprives the country of an important source of talent. Without a transformation of academic institutions to tackle such barriers, the future vitality of the U.S. rese…
Beyond bias and barriers: fulfilling the potential of women in academic sci…
by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of Engineering, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.), Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (U.S.)
United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. To maintain its scientific and engineering leadership amid increasing economic and educational globalization, the United States must aggressively pursue the innovative capacity of a…
The United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. To maintain its scientific and engineering leadership amid increasing economic and educational globalization, the United States must aggressively pursue the innovative capacity …
Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry explores how and why black and minority ethnic communities have little confidence in mental health services.
According to the National Service Framework for mental health published by the Department of Health in 1999, black and minority ethnic communities have little confidence in mental health services.
The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals …
The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals …