#  Racial Bias in Scientific Fields  

 



- [Birding While Black](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/05/black-birders-week)
- [Science Has a Racism Problem](https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30740-6.pdf)
- [Scientists Speak out Against Racial Injustice and Discrimination Amid Protests](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/06/02/scientists-speak-out-against-racial-injustice-discrimination-amid-national-protests/)
- [Following Outrage, Chemistry Journal Makes a Paper Decrying Diversity Disappear](https://retractionwatch.com/2020/06/05/following-outrage-chemistry-journal-makes-a-paper-decrying-diversity-efforts-disappear/)
- [How Implicit Bias and Lack of Diversity Undermine Science](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/how-implicit-bias-and-lack-of-diversity-undermine-science/)
- [Study Identifies a Key Reason Black Scientists are Less Likely to Receive NIH Funding](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/study-identifies-key-reason-black-scientists-are-less-likely-receive-nih-funding)
- [What I Learned While Reporting on the Dearth of Black Mathematicians](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/reader-center/black-mathematicians-research-academic-racism.html)
- [Earth Science Has a Whiteness Problem](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/science/earth-science-diversity-education.html)
- [Blacks in STEM jobs are especially concerned about diversity and discrimination in the workplace](https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/01/09/blacks-in-stem-jobs-are-especially-concerned-about-diversity-and-discrimination-in-the-workplace/)
- [(More) Bias in Science Hiring](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/06/07/new-study-finds-discrimination-against-women-and-racial-minorities-hiring-sciences)
- [Task Force Outlines Changes Needed to Increase African American Physics and Astronomy Students](https://www.aip.org/news/2020/team-up-report)
- [Experiences of Black Doctoral Students Underscores Need to Increase Diversity in STEM Fields](https://phys.org/news/2018-04-black-doctoral-students-underscores-diversity.html)
- [Racial and Gender Biases Plague Post Doc Hiring](https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/06/racial-and-gender-biases-plague-postdoc-hiring)
- [To Attract More Blacks and Hispanics to STEM, Universities Must Address Racial Issues on Campus](https://hechingerreport.org/attract-blacks-hispanics-stem-universities-must-address-racial-issues-campus/)
- [Equal Opportunity Astronomy: Articles & Resources](https://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/Diversity)
- [The Time is Now: Systemic Changes to Increase African Americans with Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics and Astronomy](https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/aipcorp/files/teamup-full-report.pdf) - 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](https://bookshop.org/books/presumed-incompetent-the-intersections-of-race-and-class-for-women-in-academia/9780874219227) 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](https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2015/12/15/column-about-exploitation-minority-scholars-academe) 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](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X19831006) - 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 ](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sce.21146)- 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](http://faculty.fiu.edu/~aeaton/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Eaton-Saunders-Jacobson-West-2019.pdf) - 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](https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02916) - 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](https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/kamola.pdf) - 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](https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20200720a/full/)