Episode 98.5: BONUS! The Journey Towards Justice
Strange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek Podcast
English - June 08, 2020 17:26 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
As the Black Lives Matter movement sweeps across the United States and the world in the wake of George Floyd's tragic death at the hands of the police, Mike takes a moment to reflect on racial injustice and social inequity in America, academia, and Star Trek.
"Race and racism in the geosciences" by Kaheli Dutt, 2020: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0519-z
"Double jeopardy in astronomy and planetary science: Women of color face greater risks of gendered and racial harassment" by Kathryn B. H. Clancy et al., 2017: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017JE005256
"Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics" by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, 2020: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/704991
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