BLACK, BROWN, BRUISED: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation

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Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation brings together more than ten years of research on high-achieving, underrepresented racially minoritized (URM) students, faculty, administrators, entrepreneurs, and professionals in STEM fields. This research is grounded in a deep appreciation of what it means to be a STEMer of color. It means being academically successful in contexts where people of color are few, and negative beliefs about their ability and motivation persist. I explore questions such as: How do some URM people manage to survive racialized academic climates, and what does STEM achievement cost them? Why do institutions continue to recruit URM people into STEM disciplines where the climate and culture regularly drive them away? How does excluding people of color from STEM disciplines limit innovation?