Re:What It's Like to Be a Black Mathematician
by noobermin on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:04PM
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This I guess is exactly what I was thinking. As a legacy from segregation (and ultimately, slavery), African Americans still are disproportionately poor. This explains the macro-statistic, that only 1% of Math PhD's are given to African Americans.
I don't doubt there is some personal bias that is at play too. As a PhD who isn't Black but isn't white or Asian, I face it too, but the personal challenges I face paled in comparison to the structural and purely economic challenges I had to overcome.
Re:What It's Like to Be a Black Mathematician
by afiori on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:13PM
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From this point of view it would be interesting to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of race-based affirmative action and income-based affirmative action.
I don't doubt there is some personal bias that is at play too. As a PhD who isn't Black but isn't white or Asian, I face it too, but the personal challenges I face paled in comparison to the structural and purely economic challenges I had to overcome.