by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 4, 2020 | Media
Racialized narratives of achievement and opportunity, and how we might ask about those. Due to a combination of distractibility and workload, I’ve been working on my current book –about the conciliatory character of STEM Diversity initiatives in twenty-first-century...
by Amy E. Slaton | Aug 9, 2018 | Media
Now airing on BBC Two, Series 2 of “The Big Life Fix” in which “The UK’s leading inventors create ingenious new solutions to everyday problems and build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need.” As a historian of science and engineering interested...
by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 9, 2015 | Media, Policy
The blunt racism of Antonin Scalia’s statement today recommending that minority students attend “lesser” schools so that they do not feel that they are being “pushed too hard,” is cloaked in false concern. His is not only a deeply racist worldview, demarcating human...
by Amy E. Slaton | Oct 4, 2015 | Higher Ed, Media, Uncategorized
Diversity, Katherine W. Phillips writes in Scientific American, is both harder to achieve in science and engineering workplaces than we might hope, and a more worthwhile goal if innovation and new ideas are our aims. At first glance that argument seems like it would...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jan 26, 2014 | Higher Ed, Media, Policy
Like many folks who read Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld’s lengthy piece in the NYTimes today, I’m aghast. The piece purports to be a probing and innovative exploration of “success” in America, following the differing fortunes of persons of various ethnic heritages. But...
by Amy E. Slaton | Sep 20, 2013 | Higher Ed, Media, Uncategorized
The line between “freedom of speech” on one hand, and the dissemination of hate speech on the other, vexes everyone who thinks about diversity in a democratic society, or at least it should. How do we protect 1st Amendment rights without also empowering those who...
