Disentangling engineering education research'santi‐Blackness

Abstract

We in the United States live out our lives in a white-supremacist social order in which the economic, political, and cultural interests of a European American elite dominate social institutions.-Madhubuti, 1994, p. 10. 1 | INTRODUCTION As the nation navigates a novel coronavirus pandemic, racism in America has become prominent in public discourse in a way not typical in recent history. The systemic nature of racism (Bonilla-Silva, 2015; Murji, 2007) and its distinguished harm to Black people garnered much attention following the revelation that the rapidly spreading coronavirus disease, initially considered to be an indiscriminate equalizer, was in fact disproportionately fatal for Black Americans (

Racism camouflaged as impostorism and the impact on Black STEM doctoral students

“…Moreover, STEM fields have been unwilling to grapple with the larger political, ideological, and racialized context of education in these fields that makes those spaces impostor-ish (Vakil and Ayers 2019) and how it differs from spaces that perpetuate racism and other forms of discrimination. Reform after reform in STEM education is marketed as a move toward equity and inclusion, but these so-called reforms do little to interrogate the anti-Blackness Black STEM learners have to endure (Berry et al 2014;Holly 2020;Martin 2019). The fraudulence of these efforts is what Martin (2019) describes as, 'delusion rooted in the fictions of white imaginaries, contingent on appeasing white logics and sensitivities, and characterized at best by incremental changes that do little to threaten the maintenance of racial hierarchies inside or outside of mathematics education (pg.…”

Sitting in the Tensions: Challenging Whiteness in Quantitative Research

“…that are anti-racist (see Long, 2020 for examples). This story also provides a starting point for engineering educators to face the realities that institutions of higher education and engineering were built to exclude, that we have complicity in their persistence, and that we must be intentional to create change (Holly, 2020).…”

Designing equitable and inclusive visualizations: An underexplored facet of best practices for research and publishing

“…Equitable and inclusive publishing practices for engineering education research have received increased attention in recent years. JEE editorials and guest editorials have raised awareness about multiple challenges, including the problematic Whiteness and maleness of much research and the need to make diversity the default condition (Pawley, 2017), racially biased citation patterns (Holly, 2020), and other general aspects of publishing ethics (Loui, 2016). There are also ongoing discussions in an engineering education journal editors' group about how to increase the inclusivity of our collective publishing practices.…”