Black And African American Scientists Technologists Engineers And Innovators Volume 1

Author : Janelle Billingslea
Publisher : Kydala Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black and African American Scientists, Technologists, Engineers, and Innovators, Volume 1 written by Janelle Billingslea and published by Kydala Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a book that will spark your kids' interest in science, technology, engineering, and math? Encouraging kids to get interested in science at an early age is essential. Kids with a background in science are less likely to get sidetracked by drugs and alcohol. Whether your child is interested in inventions, medicine, or technology, the Black and African American Scientists, Technologists, Engineers, and Innovators, Volume 1, is a great resource. Kids often learn about Black history in school but not about how it has impacted science and technology. When we think back on scientific and technological progress history, we often think of white men. It's important to teach kids about the contributions of Black inventors, innovators, and scientists. Black and African American Scientists, Technologists, Engineers, and Innovators, Volume 1 features short biographies of thirty Black and African American scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions to our world. It contains profiles of people who have contributed to science and technology. This book is perfect for libraries, schools, and classrooms. It's also an excellent read for kids, parents, and educators. It will inspire your kids to learn about Black history, technology, and engineering. Plus, it will inspire them to follow their dream of becoming the next great inventor. Volume 1 includes: Benjamin Bradley, Bessie Blount Griffin, Charles Richard Drew, Charles Richard Patterson & Frederick Douglas Patterson, Charles Ward Chappelle, Claude Harvard, David Nelson Crosthwaite, Jr., Ernest Everett Just, PhD., Frederick McKinley Jones, George Edward Alcorn, PhD., George Franklin Grant, George Robert Carruthers, PhD., George Speck & Catherine Speck Wicks, Gerald (Jerry) Anderson Lawson, Jewel Plummer Cobb, John Albert Burr, Leonard C. Bailey, Lloyd Augustus Hall, Marie Van Brittan Brown, Mark E. Dean, PhD., Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner & Mildred Austin Smith, Miriam E. Benjamin, Newman Russell Marshman, Otis Boykin, Percy Lavon Julian, PhD., Sarah E. Jacobs Goode, Sarah Marshall Boone, Shirley Ann Jackson, PhD., Thomas Jennings, and Valerie Thomas.

Author : Rufus Jimerson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727899283
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics written by Rufus Jimerson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of 1, presents Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mechanical (STEM) programs for the next generation that make a difference and travels to its cosmic origins, agenda, and alleged intervention through the ages. The history of our intellectual genius was suppressed and systemically discredited after the Aryan world invasion through African slavery in America and Jim Crow Era. Regardless, black minds continued to contribute to invention and technological progress irrespective of racial barriers by law and custom. Today, in the Age of Trump, these barriers are being systemically reinforced through court decisions rolling back our civil rights, cuts and underfunding of educational programs to develop competitive and great black minds in science, engineering, and other technological fields. Science is under duress by climate change deniers and white identity evangelism. Funding for career and technical education have been cut to facilitate donor-driven tax cuts for the wealthy and overfunded the military industrial complex. The worst cut by the Trump administration may be ensuring that diversity in science education and employment is maintained. Underrepresented minorities are again targets to increased exclusion from opportunities to engage in new discoveries and innovations on a global scale. Despite these efforts to reinforce white supremacy, the legacy of discoveries and inventions by innovators regardless of color, religion, gender, etc., prevail. Many of their accomplishments have been denied recognition. This book gives black contributors to STEM some of the credit they deserve. After recognizing award winning programs to ensure diversity in STEM given by colleges and universities, the book ties the genius displayed to its cosmic origins. Examined is whether the inhabitants of earth are part of the cosmic agenda. The book looks at Dogon legends of contact between their ancestors and extraterrestrials. The Dogon are cited as having taught early Egyptians, referred by inhabitants as Kemet or Land of the Blacks, their advanced civilization. A connection to Anunnaki, one of the Star People, is perused. Archeological evidence of the extraction of uranium ore in South Africa by an advanced civilization over 500,000 years ago is reviewed. The origin of our DNA, language, and civilization is traced to this continent. The connection to Star People from Orion is detailed. Dogon knowledge of String theory and the Big Bang theory is reviewed. Covered is how African hegemony seeded ancient civilization throughout the world, including Asia and the Americas. Included in this volume, is unsung black scientists, like their ancestors, who have made a difference in our society which has been historically hostile to people of color. Many of these groundbreaking inventors broke ground in racially separate society with steep barriers against their intellectual work. Inventors ranged from Thomas Jennings, Henry Blair and Norbert Rillieux through Hidden Figures in the Race for Space and Gerald Anderson Lawson, inventor of the first home game console. Also included i8n this volume is the story of Dr. Charles Drew who is responsible for creating the blood plasma that saved thousands of lives during World War II. These and other significant contributions by African-Americans to our progress is highlighted.

Author : Louis Haber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152085667
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Pioneers of Science and Invention written by Louis Haber and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the lives of fourteen black scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions in the various fields of science and industry.

Author : John Brooks Slaughter
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418150
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing the Face of Engineering written by John Brooks Slaughter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can academic institutions, corporations, and policymakers foster African American participation and advancement in engineering? For much of America’s history, African Americans were discouraged or aggressively prevented from becoming scientists and engineers. Those who did enter STEM fields found that their inventions and discoveries were often neither recognized nor valued. Even today, particularly in the field of engineering, the participation of African American men and women is shockingly low, and some evidence indicates that the situation might be getting worse. In Changing the Face of Engineering, twenty-four eminent scholars address the underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering from a wide variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives while proposing workable classroom solutions and public policy initiatives. They combine robust statistical analyses with personal narratives of African American engineers and STEM instructors who, by taking evidenced-based approaches, have found success in graduating African American engineers. Changing the Face of Engineering argues that the continued underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering impairs the ability of the United States to compete successfully in the global marketplace. This volume will be of interest to STEM scholars and students, as well as policymakers, corporations, and higher education institutions.

Author : Rayvon Fouché
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882708
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation written by Rayvon Fouché and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid isolation and then unveiled their discoveries to a marveling world. Most successful inventors of this era, however, developed their ideas within the framework of industrial organizations that supported them and their experiments. For African American inventors, negotiating these racially stratified professional environments meant not only working on innovative designs but also breaking barriers. In this pathbreaking study, Rayvon Fouché examines the life and work of three African Americans: Granville Woods (1856–1910), an independent inventor; Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), a corporate engineer with General Electric; and Shelby Davidson (1868–1930), who worked in the U.S. Treasury Department. Detailing the difficulties and human frailties that make their achievements all the more impressive, Fouché explains how each man used invention for financial gain, as a claim on entering adversarial environments, and as a means to technical stature in a Jim Crow institutional setting. Describing how Woods, Latimer, and Davidson struggled to balance their complicated racial identities—as both black and white communities perceived them—with their hopes of being judged solely on the content of their inventive work, Fouché provides a nuanced view of African American contributions to—and relationships with—technology during a period of rapid industrialization and mounting national attention to the inequities of a separate-but-equal social order.

Author : Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262533901
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? written by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge. In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge. Their contributions focus on African ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic deployment of both endogenous and inbound things represents an African-centered notion of STI. “Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere,” observes Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, the volume's editor. Western, colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable. The contributors discuss topics that include the trivialization of indigenous knowledge under colonialism; the creative labor of chimurenga, the transformation of everyday surroundings into military infrastructure; the role of enslaved Africans in America as innovators and synthesizers; the African ethos of “fixing”; the constitutive appropriation that makes mobile technologies African; and an African innovation strategy that builds on domestic capacities. The contributions describe an Africa that is creative, technological, and scientific, showing that African STI is the latest iteration of a long process of accumulative, multicultural knowledge production. Contributors Geri Augusto, Shadreck Chirikure, Chux Daniels, Ron Eglash, Ellen Foster, Garrick E. Louis, D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Neda Nazemi, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Katrien Pype, Scott Remer

Author : Robert C. Hayden
Publisher : Twenty First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805034455
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achievers written by Robert C. Hayden and published by Twenty First Century Books. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristine M. Krapp
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notable Black American Scientists written by Kristine M. Krapp and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles approximately 250 black Americans who have made contributions to the sciences, including inventors, researchers, award winners, and educators.

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195188055
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is a systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, contributors present a portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. --From publisher description.

Author : Charles W. Carey Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851099999
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Americans in Science [2 volumes] written by Charles W. Carey Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia provides the most complete treatment to date of the accomplishments of African American scientists—and the struggles of African Americans to find their place in the scientific community. This comprehensive reference work sheds new light on an aspect of African American life that is often overlooked. More than a summary of individuals and accomplishments, African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress explores the entire experience of African Americans seeking a place in the scientific community—not just the triumphs but the frustrations, discriminations, and the efforts to support (and sometimes impede) African American scientists. African Americans in Science offers alphabetically organized entries in three areas: the contributions of African Americans in over 30 different fields of science and medicine, schools and organizations that played a role in the development of African American scientists, and additional topics related to African American scientists. No other reference offers such a complete and up-to-date portrait of the pivotal work of African Americans across the spectrum of scientific research and what it took to achieve it.