Ruha Benjamin, Ph.D.: Beyond Tokenistic Inclusion: Science, Citizenship, and Changing the Questions

The old photograph struck me immediately. The caption read: "Ella Tyree, 29, inject[ing] atomic materials into animals to determine effects of radiation on humans." The image, published by Ebony magazine, showed Tyree, a black female scientist trained at Spelman College, working in an atomic science laboratory near Chicago circa 1949.

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