Why Diversity Matters Among Those Who Study Diversity
Why Diversity Matters Among Those Who Study Diversity
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10.1093/ae/tmaa037
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发表时间:
2020-09-01
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Wilson, Megan
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Evangelista, Dominic A.;Goodman, Aaron;Wilson, Megan
People of Color (BIPOC) in often fatal ways (Sinyangwe and McKesson 2020). Academics often assume that intellectual venues function outside of society in terms of race and that academia is therefore unbiased; see Staples (1984) for a discussion of this myth and about anti-Black racism in academia. However, implicit biases are commonplace in higher academia (eg, Staples 1984, Pritlove et al. 2019, Eaton et al. 2020) and have a profound effect on recruitment and retention of BIPOC researchers (Alexander and Hermann 2016). Several factors influence the retention of BIPOC in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields after they enter graduate school or professional positions: alienation, micro-and macroaggressions by colleagues, systemic inequalities in access to education, and lack of institutional support (Salazar et al. 2004, Vasquez and Jones 2006, Sue et