UIC Education professor probes causes of systemic racism in chemistry – UIC Today

In a commentary for Nature Chemistry, Morton, assistant professor for identity and justice in STEM education in the UIC College of Education, applied the framework of critical race theory to the field of chemistry, where diversity remains a particular challenge even relative to other sciences. He identified factors such as feelings of invisibility or hypervisibility in Black students, differences in financial and social capital, and lack of intersectionality in diversity programs as systemic barriers facing students, faculty and career scientists in chemistry.
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Pat S.
2 years ago

Standard woke/racist nonsense. Not worth the time it takes to read.

nixit
2 years ago

Black and white chemists need to form more covalent bonds.

Dorf
2 years ago

Reading through the article , all I read was racist blather. Science doesn’t care if you are woke or white or black. Either you have the chops to do it or you do not. Take your CRT racism somewhere else.

Tubal-Caine
2 years ago

Nothing but hot air from a dodo who could not make it through hardcore science subjects. It takes hard work as well as perseverance to obtain a STEM degree. I worked for my UICC hardcore STEM degree because I wanted out of the ghetto (Woodlawn) in spite of losing my dad at 14, poverty and living in back of storefront without hot water or a bathtub. My black chemistry teacher inspired me and as a principal renamed his high school after Percy Julian, a black chemist and father of modern latex paint industry. If your interest is money and not… Read more »

Dorf
2 years ago
Reply to  Tubal-Caine

Kudos!

ProzacPlease
2 years ago

I guess “insufficient educational preparation in math and science at the K-12 level” was too obvious.

Giddyap
2 years ago

Systemic racism is a hoax and a fraud — anyone who says otherwise is a race clown con artist

Last edited 2 years ago by Giddyap
Riverbender
2 years ago

Science classes contain considerable amounts of normal mathematics, not common core attempted math. Therefore look at math scores of Chicago blacks and perhaps you will see the answer

Dorf
2 years ago
Reply to  Riverbender

Quick question, is common core math also racist?

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