Abstract

In 2017 National Science Foundation data revealed that in the United States the professional biological workforce was composed of ~ 69.5% “whites”, 21.3% “Asians”, and only 3% “African American or Blacks” (National Science Foundation, 2017, https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/doctoratework/2017/html/sdr2017_dst_03.html). There are problems with the categories themselves but without too deep an investigation of these, these percentages are representative of the demography of biology as a whole over the latter portion of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. However, evolutionary biologists would argue (and correctly so) that the representation of persons of African descent in our field is probably an order of magnitude lower (0.3%). This commentary focuses on the factors that are associated with underrepresentation of African Americans in evolutionary science careers.

Details

Title
African Americans in evolutionary science: where we have been, and what’s next
Author
Graves, Joseph L, Jr 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA 
Pages
1-10
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Oct 2019
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
19366426
e-ISSN
19366434
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2307613593
Copyright
Evolution: Education and Outreach is a copyright of Springer, (2019). All Rights Reserved., © 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.