Special Report - American Minorities in Astronomy

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May 1995

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Mercury, Vol. 24, no. 3, p.10

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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There are about 15 African-American professional astronomers in the United States. Not 15 percent, fifteen. Latinos and Native Americans are similarly underrepresented. Those who make it not only must run the usual gauntlet of school, college, graduate school, and the job market; they must jump extra hurdles that can include poverty, discrimination, isolation, expectations of failure, and the burden of "representing" their ethnic group to their profession and their profession to their ethnic group. Over the past two decades, astronomers have worked to improve women's representation in their profession. What can we do to support American minority groups? Mercury h as asked astronomers, educators, and students from various perspectives to comment.

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