“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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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
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40594-020-00241-4