Sisters in Science : Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science / Diann Jordan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Diann, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Jordan, Diann, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women scientists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Purdue University Press 2006

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written by the author who took a journey to find out what inspired and daunted black women in their desire to become scientists in America. This book provides an oral history stretching across decades and disciplines and desires.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Timeline: Black Women in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Tables

Civil Rights for all/Hattie Carwell

Still Going Strong/Yvonne Young Clark

to the Beat of Her Own Drum/Anna J. Coble

One of Our Own/Freddie M. Dixon

A Class Act/Elvira Doman

It's in My Genes/Georgia Dunston

Destined to Greater Heights/Evelyn Boyd Granville

The Sky is the Limit/Shirley Ann Jackson

An Unlikely Scientist/Lynda M. Joran

A Woman's Place/Shelia McClure

It's a Good Thing/Etheleen McGinnis-Hill

Rebel With a Cause/Jennie r. Patrick

Her Voice Lives On/Jann Patrice Primus

It's a Family Affair/Dolores Cooper Shockley

Just Call Me a Scientist/Rubye Torrey

Still on the Battlefield/Geraldine W. Twitty

a Passion for Mosquito Research/LaVern Whisenton-Davidson

epilogue: Continuing to Tell the Story

references and Recommend Reading.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781612498904

1612498906

9781429461405

1429461403

OCLC:

1365361921