Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialised Stem Education Stifles Innovation
These stories and case studies of both conscious and unconscious bias are a must-read for every academic
‘African women who give birth in the US have the same newborn and maternal death rates as whites do—until they have been here for a while. After twenty years in the United States, the Africans’ maternal and infant death rates are the same as African Americans.’ This is one of the most shocking facts that clung on to my mind in this exasperating read. That is, just how deep the impact of the inequalities and discriminations brought on by the full American racism experience has, not only on Stem (science, technology, education and maths) aspirations and mental health, but also on physical health.