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Title Sisters in science : conversations with black women scientists about race, gender, and their passion for science / [interviews by] Diann Jordan.

Publication Info. West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) : illustrations.
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computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.
Contents Introduction. Timeline : Black women in science, mathematics, and engineering -- Tables -- Hattie Carwell : civil rights for all -- Yvonne Young Clark : still going strong -- Anna J. Coble : to the beat of her own drum -- Freddie M. Dixon : one of our own -- Elvira Doman : a class act -- Georgia Dunston : it's in my genes -- Evelyn Boyd Granville : destined to greater heights -- Shirley Ann Jackson : the sky is the limit -- Lynda M. Jordan : an unlikely scientist -- Shelia McClure : a woman's place -- Etheleen McGinnis-Hill : it's a good thing -- Jennie R. Patrick : rebel with a cause -- Jann Patrice Primus : her voice lives on -- Dolores Cooper Shockley : it's a family affair -- Rubye Torrey : just call me a scientist -- Geraldine W. Twitty : still on the battlefield -- LaVern Whisenton-Davidson : a passion for mosquito research -- Epilogue. Continuing to tell the story.
Summary "Author Diann Jordan took a journey to find out what inspired and daunted black women in their desire to become scientists in America. Letting 18 prominent black women scientists talk for themselves, Sisters in Science becomes an oral history stretching across decades and disciplines and desires. From Yvonne Clark, the first black woman to be awarded a B.S. in mechanical engineering to Georgia Dunston, a microbiologist who is researching the genetic code for her race, to Shirley Jackson, whose aspiration led to the presidency of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jordan has created a significant record of women who persevered to become firsts in many of their fields. It all began for Jordan when she was asked to give a presentation on black women scientists. She found little information and little help. After almost nine years of work, the stories of black women scientists can finally be told"--Publisher's description.
Note Print version record.
Subject African American women scientists -- Interviews.
African American women scientists -- Biography.
African American women scientists -- Social conditions.
Women in science -- United States.
Historically Black colleges and universities -- Alumni and alumnae.
Scientists, Black -- Biography.
Women scientists -- Biography.
Femmes scientifiques noires américaines -- Biographies.
Femmes scientifiques noires américaines -- Entretiens.
Femmes scientifiques noires américaines -- Conditions sociales.
Femmes dans les sciences -- États-Unis.
SCIENCE -- Essays.
SCIENCE -- Nanoscience.
SCIENCE -- Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
NATURE -- Seasons.
SCIENCE / History
African American women scientists
Scientists, Black
Women scientists
Naturwissenschaftlerin
USA
Schwärze
Wetenschapsbeoefenaars.
Vrouwen.
Vrouwenemancipatie.
Zwarten.
Black feminism.
Women.
Indexed Term African American women in science Black women in science African American women in STEM fields Science in Historically Black colleges and universities
Genre/Form Biography
Interview
interviews.
oral histories (literary works)
Biographies
Interviews.
Biographies.
Oral histories.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Interviews.
Histoires orales.
Added Author Jordan, Diann, 1958- interviewer.
Other Form: Print version: Sisters in science. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005038027 (OCoLC)63107961
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9781557534453 (paperback)

 
    
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