To dismantle structural racism in science, scientists need to learn how it works.
To dismantle structural racism in science, scientists need to learn how it works.
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为了消除科学中的结构性种族主义，科学家需要了解它是如何运作的。
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10.1038/s41386-023-01534-2
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2023
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Sun,DaphneS
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Weinreb,Caleb;Sun,DaphneS
2020年夏天，美国各地的抗议活动引发了一波解决神经生物学研究中结构性种族主义问题的承诺。美国国立精神卫生研究院（NIMH）和神经疾病和中风（NINDS）的主任承诺减少拨款资金的种族差异，并承认这些差异对公平提供精神卫生保健的负面影响。除了普遍存在之外，行动呼吁在谴责结构性和体制性形式的种族主义方面也是前所未有的，而不是狭隘地关注个人的种族主义思想和行动（见图1）。然而，正如我们下面所说明的，同时关注不平等的结构性和个人原因是一种不稳定的平衡：科学家们的注意力往往倾向于不平等的个人心理原因，如无意识的偏见和冒名顶替者综合症，并逐渐远离结构性压迫--通过制度性政策和做法来维持不平等。在这里，我们认为，科学的培训应该包括教育的结构，有助于科学的不平等。拆除这些结构将需要各级科学家的深刻理解，教育可以动员集体行动，开展这项重要工作。
Protests across the United States during the summer of 2020 triggered a wave of commitments to address structural racism in neurobiology research. The directors of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) and Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) promised to reduce racial disparities in grant funding and acknowledged the negative impact these disparities have on equitable provision of mental health care [1]. Besides being ubiquitous, the calls to action were unprecedented in condemning structural and institutional forms of racism, rather than narrowly focusing on the racist thoughts and actions of individuals (see Fig. 1).Yet as we illustrate below, maintaining focus on both the structural and individual causes of inequity is an unstable equilibrium: scientists’ attention tends to gravitate toward the individual psychological causes of inequity, such as unconscious bias and imposter syndrome, and drift away from structural oppression—the maintenance of inequity through institutional policies and practices. Here we argue that scientific training should include education about the structures that contribute to inequity in science. Dismantling those structures will require deep understanding from scientists at all levels, and education can mobilize collective action for this important work.