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The Nature News team recommends some of the stories that inspired and educated us — new and old, from Nature and elsewhere.
- “Scientists who imagine that bias lies in others, not themselves, fail to recognize that to live in the world today is to be drip-fed assumptions and prejudices that guide our thoughts and actions,” writes science journalist Angela Saini. “Racism and prejudice are woven into the structures in which we all live and work — and into us.” In her 2019 book Superior, Saini investigated how the history and preservation of dubious science has justified and normalized the idea of hierarchies between ‘racial’ groups. (Nature | 5 min read, from March)
- Being inclusive gives research groups a competitive edge. It also happens to be the right thing to do. Three groups that have prioritized diversity in their ranks share the benefits and the challenges. (Nature | 12 min read, from 2018)
- Up-and-coming scientists, many of whom come from groups that are under-represented both in DNA databases and in the research workforce, are blazing a new path to prevent the repetition of historical injustices in genome science. (Nature | 13 min read, from 2019)
- “When the argument is about race, the weapon of choice is science,” notes geneticist and author Adam Rutherford. His book, How to Argue With a Racist, gets stuck into the hard facts that can combat entrenched attitudes. (The Guardian | 10 min read, from January)
- In 2015, the murder of nine Black people by a white supremacist in Charleston, South Carolina, led author Claudia Rankine to write the seminal essay ‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’. This week, Rankine reflected again on the precariousness of being Black in the United States. (The New York Times | 25 min listen and 12 min read)
- “Virtually every institution with some degree of history in America, be it public, be it private, has a history of extracting wealth and resources out of the African-American community,” said journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates when he last year revisited his influential 2014 essay, ‘The Case for Reparations’. (The Atlantic | 59 min read & The New Yorker | 10 min read)
- Springer Nature, the publisher of Nature, has put together a freely available collection of content about some of the issues relevant to the Black Lives Matter movement, such as systemic racism, policing and health disparities.
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