Reading List – Black in Plant Science

Inspiring Reads

Books on Race & Racism in Science & Academia

Ahmed S (2009) On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life ISBN-10 9780822352365
Arday, J and Safia Mirza, H. (2018) Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy, Springer.
Benjamin R (2019) Race after Technology: Abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code ISBN-10 1509526404
Saini (2019) Superior: The Return of Race Science ISBN-10 0008341001
Shah S (2021) Complaint! ISBN-10 1478017716
Shah S (2022) Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Coaching: A Practical Guide ISBN-10 139860450X
Sussman R W (2016) The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea ISBN-10 067466003X
Washington HA (2008) Medical Apartheid ISBN-10 076791547X

Research Articles & Reports on Race & Racism in Science & Academia

Alexander and Arday (2015) Aiming Higher – Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy. The Runnymede Trust ISBN: 978-1-909546-05-9
Antonelli, A. It’s time to re-examine the history of botanical collections. Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
Cox KL, Elliott KR, Harris TM (2021) Creating supportive environments in academia for Black scientists to thrive. Plant Cell. Aug 13;33(7):2112-2115. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab125
Chaudhary VB, Berhe AA (2020). Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab. PLoS Comput Biol. 2020 Oct 1;16(10):e1008210. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008210.
Cramer L. (2021) Alternative strategies for closing the award gap between white and minority ethnic students. Elife. 2021 Aug 4;10:e58971. doi: 10.7554/eLife.58971.
Díaz-García C, González-Moreno A, Sáez-Martínez FJ (2013) Gender diversity within R&D teams: Its impact on radicalness of innovation. Innovation, 15:2, 149-160 doi: 10.5172/impp.2013.15.2.149
Ford et al (2019) Women from some under-represented minorities are given too few talks. Nature 576, 32-35 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03688-w
Hong L, Page SE. (2004) Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Nov 16;101(46):16385-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403723101.
Hofstra B, Kulkarni VV, Munoz-Najar Galvez S, He B, Jurafsky D, McFarland DA. The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Apr 28;117(17):9284-9291. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1915378117.
Madzima TF, MacIntosh GC. (2021) Equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts in professional societies: intention versus reaction. Plant Cell. Oct 11;33(10):3189-3193. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab186
Markle RS, Williams TM, Williams KS, deGravelles KH, Bagayoko D and Warner IM (2022) Supporting Historically Underrepresented Groups in STEM Higher Education: The Promise of Structured Mentoring Networks. Front. Educ. 7:674669. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.674669
The McKinsey Report 2020 – diversity wins: How inclusion matters
Montgomery BL. (2020) Planting Equity: Using What We Know to Cultivate Growth as a Plant Biology Community. Plant Cell. 2020 Nov;32(11):3372-3375. doi: 10.1105/tpc.20.00589.
Montgomery BL, Whittaker JA. The Roots of Change: Cultivating Equity and Change across Generations from Healthy Roots. Plant Cell. 2022 Apr 21:koac121. doi: 10.1093/plcell/koac121.
Pandey S. (2020) Ready, Primed, Go: Ending the Racism Pandemic in Science. Plant Cell. Dec;32(12):3660-3661. doi: 10.1105/tpc.20.00783
Rollock N (2019) Staying Power – The career experiences and strategies of UK Black female professors https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/10075/Staying-20Power/pdf/UCU_Rollock_February_2019.pdf
Stockard J, Rohlfing CM, Richmond GL. (2021) Equity for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM: Graduate experiences and career plans in chemistry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Jan 26;118(4):e2020508118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2020508118
UKRI report Detailed ethnicity analysis of funding applicants and awardees