“If you aren’t White, Asian or Indian, you aren’t an engineer”: racial microaggressions in STEM education

“If you aren’t White, Asian or Indian, you aren’t an engineer”: racial microaggressions in STEM education

Abstract Background Race and gender disparities remain a challenge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. We introduce campus racial climate as a framework for conceptualizing the role of racial microaggressions (RMAs) as a contributing factor to the lack of represent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Meggan J. Lee, Jasmine D. Collins, Stacy Anne Harwood, Ruby Mendenhall, Margaret Browne Huntt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-09-01
Series:International Journal of STEM Education
Subjects:
Racial microaggressions
Higher education
STEM
Educational setting
Diversity concerns
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40594-020-00241-4

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