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Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesWGS.160J
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2019English
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This subject examines the role scientists have played as activists in social movements in the U.S. following World War II. Themes include scientific responsibility and social justice, the roles of gender, race, and power, the motivation of individual scientists, strategies for organizing, and scientists’ impact within social movements.

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