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SOLO-AUTHORED BOOK – October 2020 !
“Black, Brown, and Bruised tells the whole story. Most scholarship on STEM access narrowly focuses on test performances, as if the result were without a cause. Dr. McGee’s brilliant narrative weaves together research on psychology, education, learning sciences and science to warn us of the critical mistake STEM makes by remaining an exclusionary space. This brilliant, timely, and visionary book takes a one-of-a-kind exploration into the intersectional forces that impede the progress of STEM.”
– Bryan A. Brown, professor of teacher education, Stanford University
“In this ground-breaking book, McGee takes up the issue of race and STEM from a decidedly critical stance, and in doing so, she calls into question the assumptions and goals of STEM education, and the white supremacist ideology underlying it. In a theoretically brilliant way, she crafts a new future for STEM—one that links widening STEM opportunity to increased innovation, and better ways of being responsible global citizens.”
—Na’ilah Suad Nasir, president, Spencer Foundation
McGee offers policies and practices that must be implemented to ensure that STEM education and employment become more inclusive including internships, mentoring opportunities, and curricular offerings. Such structural changes are imperative if we are to reverse the negative effects of racialized STEM and unlock the potential of all students to drive technological innovation and power the economy.
Check Out Our Edited Volume!
The lack of diversity in the STEM academic and industry workforce (i.e., in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and disability status in disciplines that train students to participate in the STEM workforce) requires researchers who specialize in racism, sexism, and other forms of bias to be part of the discussion and search for solutions. Research on diversity in STEM frequently neglects how race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Much more often, such research has focused solely on gendered experiences within STEM, thus ignoring the experiences of many students who are affected through both race and gender. Our edited volume, Diversifying STEM: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender, serves as an extended discussion of the foundational concepts of our research group, the Explorations in Diversifying Engineering Faculty Initiative (EDEFI; pronounced “edify”).
The authors who contributed to this edited volume address the topical void in the literature by using research expertise from multiple disciplines of STEM education. Their scholarship includes race, culture, and social stratification; social justice in education; the affirmative personal and academic development of Black men and boys; mathematical and racial identity; racial socialization processes; and race and gender intersectionality. The voices of these multidisciplinary scholars offer a wide array of perspectives. Our hopes are that this volume will allow practitioners, teachers, students, faculty, and professionals to reimagine STEM across a variety of educational paradigms, perspectives, and disciplines, which is critical to finding solutions that broaden the participation of historically underrepresented groups within the STEM disciplines.
I’m pleased to share that Diversifying STEM was included in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s round-up of “Selected New Books on Higher Education.” https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247906
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Mission Statement
The EDEFI team was co-founded by Dr. Ebony O. McGee and Dr. William H. Robinson. They are supported in their work by faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, undergraduate students, and research affiliates. Click here to view Team Bios.
Why we do it
McGee, E. O., Brockman, A., Park, Chang-Soo & The EDEFI Team. (2020, June 1). Numbers Beyond Stagnate! The Underrepresentation of Black University Students and Faculty in Higher Education STEM. Explorations in Diversifying Engineering in Faculty Initiative.
WHY WE DO IT
McGee, E. O., Brockman, A., Park, Chang-Soo & The EDEFI Team. (2020, June 1). Numbers Beyond Stagnate! The Underrepresentation of Black University Students and Faculty in Higher Education STEM. Explorations in Diversifying Engineering in Faculty Initiative.
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Black Faculty Engineers
Their mission is to support Black faculty, researchers, practitioners and students in engineering and to serve as a resource for community building, sharing experiences with implicit bias and systemic racism, providing action items to address racial injustice, and identifying collaborators and sponsors.
Chang Soo
Devin
Tianwen
Philip
Darius
Dr. McGee
Yuan
Ann
Dr. Robinson
Amanda
DISCLAMIER:
This work was supported by grant funding from the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.