![]() The inspiring story of Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan has reenergized the ongoing conversation about the importance of inclusivity in STEM. It’s raked in roughly $6o million so far, and counting. Now, for the second weekend since its wide-release debut, Hidden Figures-the true story of three black female mathematicians at NASA-is number one at the box office. ![]() Image: 20th Century Fox/YouTubeįirst, it beat Star Wars: Rogue One. Henson as Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures. Martin, Washington PostĬomments Off on ‘Hidden’ no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98Ī Black Female Astrophysicist Explains Why Hidden Figures Isn’t Just About History Tags: Katherine Johnson, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, The Washington Post, Victoria St. “And they are as excited as I am.”įor many people, especially African Americans, her tale of overcoming racism and sexism is inspirational… “I’m glad that I’m young enough still to be living and that they are, so they can look and see, ‘That’s who that is,’ ” she said. Suddenly Johnson, who will turn 99 in August, finds herself inundated with interview requests, award banquet invitations and people who just want to stop by and shake her hand. “Hidden Figures” was nominated Tuesday for an Academy Award for best picture. The movie tells how a group of black women - world-class mathematicians all - helped provide NASA with data crucial to the success of the agency’s early spaceflights. Henson in “ Hidden Figures,” a film based on a book of the same name. Now, three decades after retiring from the agency, Johnson is portrayed by actress Taraji P. That she was an African American woman in an almost all-male and white workforce made her career even more remarkable. ![]() ‘Hidden’ no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98įame has finally found Katherine Johnson - and it only took a half-century, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie.įor more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA mathematician at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., where she played an unseen but pivotal role in the country’s space missions. Comparative Case Study,” Connecticut Law Review, Volume 43, Number 5 (2011): 1407-1437. ![]() Tanya Katerí Hernández, “ The Value of Intersectional Comparative Analysis to the “Post-Racial” Future of Critical Race Theory: A Brazil-U.S. The gendered racism of the trope of racial mixture is also prevalent across Latin America. Further, while interracial intimacy is viewed as the prerogative of all white men, only working-class men are viewed as the appropriate marriage partners of black women. Instead, it is the intimacy of black women with white men that is the focus of national racial mixture and its presumed ability to decrease the Black presence within the nation. Their racial purity and class status are not implicated in the mestiçagem/cult of racial mixture they are meant to continue the production of an elite white class. White elite women are completely precluded from the idealization of racial mixture. The White supremacist underpinnings of the racial mixture as racial utopia concept are made even more evident when one considers the intersectional gender and race specificity regarding the discourse of racial mixture.
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