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Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (The MIT Press)
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.Along with replies by ’ClumsyPilot and ’ruined, remember that Brown v. Board of Education was passed only in 1954 and 1954 is just yesterday.Also see this HN comment from a day ago on how much a black person had to fear even in 1980:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061511
An excelelnt book regarding these is 'Simple Justice by Richard Kluger
https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Justice-Education-Americas-Str...
Another book focusing on computing is 'Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing by Jane Margolis
https://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Shallow-End-Education-Computing...
There is a wealth of info regarding these things, see redlining for example:
(argh can't reply to replies) -- @yummyfajitas -- no i don't think it would be fundamentally different, since the mission would still be to bring out the most of people's natural potential and interest in a subject, to kindle a spark that might have otherwise been unlit due to lack of early exposure.[Edit: I'm not eloquent enough to make a convincing case at 2:20am, but I don't think that extra sentence was merely a curious non-sequitur, even if it could be cut without modifying the point of that paragraph. I can list out tons of points/counterpoints in my head ("what about redheaded people with thin left eyebrows? why not mention them? would that be a non-sequitur? what about the historical and socioeconomic implications behind this demographic group and its relationship to technological access? ..."), but I don't have enough expertise to give this topic a proper treatment. So I'll leave this thread by recommending the following two books:
http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Computing-Jane-Mar...
http://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Shallow-End-Education-Computing/...
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