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Afro-Caribbean Immigrants in STEM Careers: One Woman's Experience Teaching in a STEM Field

Afro-Caribbean Immigrants in STEM Careers: One Woman's Experience Teaching in a STEM Field

Beverley-Ann Scott
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781522588702|ISBN10: 1522588701|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522592273|EISBN13: 9781522588719
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8870-2.ch006
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Scott, Beverley-Ann. "Afro-Caribbean Immigrants in STEM Careers: One Woman's Experience Teaching in a STEM Field." Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields, edited by Ursula Thomas and Jill Drake, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 143-168. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8870-2.ch006

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Scott, B. (2019). Afro-Caribbean Immigrants in STEM Careers: One Woman's Experience Teaching in a STEM Field. In U. Thomas & J. Drake (Eds.), Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields (pp. 143-168). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8870-2.ch006

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Scott, Beverley-Ann. "Afro-Caribbean Immigrants in STEM Careers: One Woman's Experience Teaching in a STEM Field." In Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields, edited by Ursula Thomas and Jill Drake, 143-168. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8870-2.ch006

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Abstract

Afro-Caribbean immigrants have made a significant contribution to the STEM careers in the United States over the last 70 years. Their contributions have been mostly unrecognized, and they have had extraordinary challenges to overcome, as perceptions of people of color in these professions and their ability to competently excel has been constantly under scrutiny. This chapter examines the experiences of an Afro-Caribbean woman who came to the United States as a Mathematics teacher in 2002. Her story describes the racial prejudice she encountered while teaching Mathematics in two North Carolina high schools. It highlights some of the deep-rooted racial biases that exist toward people of color in the STEM professions, not only by non-Africans but also by African Americans themselves. It also reflects on the challenges that changing those perceptions will entail and the link those biases have to slavery and segregation in the United States.

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