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Outsiders : personal stories of marginalization and perseverance in the geosciences / edited by Claudia I. Mora, A. Wesley Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Earth scientists--United States--Biography.
- Earth scientists.
- Minority scientists--United States--Biography.
- Minority scientists.
- Other Title:
- Outsiders
- Place of Publication:
- Geological Society of America
- Summary:
- "This book presents the autobiographies of eight professional earth scientists from underrepresented groups. They relate the joys and horrors; the help and the harm; and the care, hatred, and indifference they saw in their quests for earth science careers. All became successful, most often despite their circumstances, finding the courage to resist and even fight through the prejudice, bias, ignorance, and indifference that still characterize our society and our profession today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- My search for belonging: an anxious journey through gender and geology / Rachel F. Bosch
- Career reflections from a Chinese American geology professor / Marjorie A. Chan
- Journey from geologist to basket maker / Theresa Secord
- My pathway to professional geologist / Reginal W. Spiller
- How mentors and the State made a blind scientist / Geerat J. Vermeij
- "If," then / A. Wesley Ward
- Onlies and firsts: my path in geoscience / Sherilyn Coretta Williams-Stroud
- One adventure after another: turning challenges into opportunities / Frederic Henley Wilson.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780813782232
- 0813782236
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