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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jordan, Diann, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women scientists--Biography.

African American women scientists.

Scientists, Black--Biography.

Scientists, Black.

Women scientists--Biography.

Women scientists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2006]

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.

ISBN:

1557533865

OCLC:

63107961

Publisher Number:

9781557533869