Racial Bias in Scientific Fields
- Birding While Black
- Science Has a Racism Problem
- Scientists Speak out Against Racial Injustice and Discrimination Amid Protests
- Following Outrage, Chemistry Journal Makes a Paper Decrying Diversity Disappear
- How Implicit Bias and Lack of Diversity Undermine Science
- Study Identifies a Key Reason Black Scientists are Less Likely to Receive NIH Funding
- What I Learned While Reporting on the Dearth of Black Mathematicians
- Earth Science Has a Whiteness Problem
- Blacks in STEM jobs are especially concerned about diversity and discrimination in the workplace
- (More) Bias in Science Hiring
- Task Force Outlines Changes Needed to Increase African American Physics and Astronomy Students
- Experiences of Black Doctoral Students Underscores Need to Increase Diversity in STEM Fields
- Racial and Gender Biases Plague Post Doc Hiring
- To Attract More Blacks and Hispanics to STEM, Universities Must Address Racial Issues on Campus
- Equal Opportunity Astronomy: Articles & Resources
- The Time is Now: Systemic Changes to Increase African Americans with Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics and Astronomy - Report from the American Institute of Physics TEAM-UP group, culminating in a list of recommendations for individual faculty, departments, or professional societies.
- Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, Angela P. Harris. A compilation of 40 stories and studies about the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color.
- Invisible Labor by Eric Anthony Grollman - Column about how faculty of color at Historically White Colleges and Universities often deal with disproportionate amounts of invisible labor, and gives advice on how to minimize this burden.
- Does STEM Stand Out? Examining Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Persistence Across Postsecondary Fields - Riegle-Crumb, King, & Irizarry (2019). National study showing that “Black and Latina/o youth who begin college as STEM majors are more likely to depart than their White peers.”
- Is Science for Us? Black Students’ and Parents’ Views of Science and Science Careers - Archer, Dewitt, & Osborne (2015). Draws on survey data to address “why science careers are less ‘thinkable’ for young black students” and considers implications for science education.
- How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors’ Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates - Eaton et al. (2019). Study showing that the perceived race and gender of a postdoctoral applicant’s name affects how an otherwise-identical CV is judged.
- Building an Inclusive AAS - The Critical Role of Diversity and Inclusion Training for AAS Council and Astronomy Leadership - Brinkworth et al. (2015). A paper laying out the case for diversity and inclusion training in professional societies; written for astronomy but much of the content is applicable to other fields.
- Dear Administrators: To Protect Your Faculty from Right-Wing Attacks, Follow the Money - Isaac Kamola. Discusses the coordinated efforts of far right groups to target Black faculty by weaponizing their institutions’ administrators against them
- Commentary: Disentangling anti-Blackness from physics