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Inclusive Teaching in STEM: On Physics

Weaving Awareness of Race and Power into STEM Courses

Physics

Charles D. Brown II, “Disentangling Anti-Blackness from Physics,” Physics Today (July 20, 2020)

Lauren Chambers, “A Different Kind of Dark Energy: Placing Race and Gender in Physics,” Yale Undergraduate Thesis (2017)

Maria Ong, “Body Projects of Young Women of Color in Physics: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Science,” Social Problems 52:4 (2005): 593–617

Chandra Prescod-Weinstein, “Curiosity and the End of Discrimination,” Nature Astronomy 1: 0145 (June 2, 2017): 1-3

Chandra Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (New York: Bold Type Books, 2021) [Bowdoin Display Alcove QC793.2 .P735 2021]

Barbara L. Whitten, “(Baby) Steps Toward Feminist Physics,” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 18:2 (2012): 115-134