{"id":281,"date":"2014-05-01T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=281"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:07:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:07:15","slug":"the-culture-of-cosmos-ii-space-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2014\/05\/01\/the-culture-of-cosmos-ii-space-and-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Culture of <em>Cosmos<\/em> II: Space and Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2014\/04\/28\/the-culture-of-cosmos\/\">Earlier in the week<\/a> we looked at the new television series<em> Cosmos<\/em> and the fervor it caused between pro-science and pro-\u00adreligion camps. Lost within this science vs. religion debate, however, is the obvious racial angle surrounding <em>Cosmos.<\/em> Neil deGrasse Tyson\u2014the series\u2019 host\u2014is one of the few widely-recognizable black scientific figures today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/career\/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-african-americans-in-the-sciences\/\">He himself has stated that there is a distinct lack of representation of African Americans<\/a> in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) fields. What broader trends in race and science might this show illuminate?<\/p>\n<h5>Research affirms deGrasse Tyson\u2019s opinions, showing that there are indeed significant inequalities in career attainments in STEM fields for women and minority groups:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~jslsoc\/\">J. Scott Long<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/fox\">Mary Frank Fox<\/a>. 1995. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annualreviews.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1146\/annurev.so.21.080195.000401\">\u201cScientific careers: Universalism and particularism.\u201d <\/a><em>Annual Review of Sociology<\/em> 21(1): 45\u00ad71<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soc.qc.cuny.edu\/faculty\/tang\/\">Joyce Tang<\/a>. 2000. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;id=9wr_Xss_z3oC&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PR11&amp;ots=GeK26syGQa&amp;sig=rg6D5xcf7KvagD9RAvyqkoXXPys#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Doing engineering: The career attainment and mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian\u00adAmerican engineers<\/a><\/em>. Lanham, MD: Rowman &amp; Littlefield<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h5>Given the limited ways in which African Americans are typically represented in the media, deGrasse Tyson\u2019s well established media presence as an African American scientist proves doubly important:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.ucsc.edu\/faculty\/singleton.php?&amp;singleton=true&amp;cruz_id=herman\">Herman Gray.<\/a> 1995. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/watching-race\"><em>Watching Race: Television and the struggle for \u201cblackness.\u201d<\/em> <\/a>Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press<\/li>\n<li>Herman Gray. 2005. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520241442\">Cultural moves: African Americans and the politics of representation<\/a><\/em>. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- TSP testing --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 234px; height: 60px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4670099812817063\" data-ad-slot=\"1069646635\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week we looked at the new television series Cosmos and the fervor it caused between pro-science and pro-\u00adreligion camps. Lost within this science vs. religion debate, however, is the obvious racial angle surrounding Cosmos. Neil deGrasse Tyson\u2014the series\u2019 host\u2014is one of the few widely-recognizable black scientific figures today. 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