Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics.
In this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusion and the struggle for women to reconcile "Black woman" with "physicist." I describe the phenomenon where whi...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 421 - 448 |
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University of Chicago Press
Winter2020
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