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(More customer reviews)I have just finished reading the whole book. It's an easy read, well written, and full of a lot of good information.
This is not a comprehensive history of African Americans in science. It is, however, a wonderful way to find out just how much African Americans contribute to modern America.
Thompson does a good job of not only telling about current African American achievers in engineering and science, he places them in a historical context.
Yes, Thompson does talk about the obstacles racism threw in the path of the people whose stories he tells - but really, racism is a fact of life and a real part of American history. We need to accept it and deal with it and admit it is there!
To any teachers - this is a good book if you teach African American students as it provides the story of many excellent role models for your students. I recommend it highly.
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Unheralded but Unbowed traces the history of African Americans in what we now call the "Knowledge Enterprise." But it also endeavors to "connect the dots" between the poorly understood work of Black scientists and engineers and the broad sweep of Black History, in which they are at once the products of the decades-long struggle of African Americans for an equal place at the table of America's benefits and actors playing critical roles in many of the advances. Centered around the stories of the high achievers recognized at the annual Black Engineer of the Year Awzards, the book closely examines the historical developments that brought them to this level of eminence, as it strives to illustrate for new generations the true import of their careers and accomplishments.
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