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Publications

The MIT Black History Project is committed to collecting, developing, curating, and preserving content on the Black experience at MIT dating back to 1865. We are also currently working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the challenges we all face within the greater scope of the Institute’s mission and accomplishments.

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The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production, 2018
Book
2010s

The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production, 2018

Faculty
A book by MIT professor Clapperton Mavhunga examining how African hunters and knowledge producers in Zimbabwe shaped colonial science and wildlife management.
Other Researchers
Gloria Green Hooks
Oral History
1990s

Transcript: Interview with Gloria Green, 1997

Multiple
An oral history interview with Gloria Green Hooks, the second Black woman to attend MIT (45 years after Marie C. Turner), recounting her student experience at the Institute.
MIT Black History Project
Article
2010s

Race in Digital Space: Conceptualizing the Media Project, 2014

Visiting
An article examining the 2014 Race in Digital Space exhibition at MIT's List Visual Arts Center, which explored how race shapes digital media, algorithms, and online identity.
Other Researchers
Thesis
1990s

Developing a paradigm for visualizing architecture using computational methods : an analysis of the Havana Project by Lebbeus Woods, 1996

Student
A 1996 MIT thesis developing computational visualization methods for architectural design, using Lebbeus Woods's Havana Project as a case study.
Other Researchers
Thesis
2000s

A Reliable Low Bandwidth Email-based Communication Protocol, 2001

Student
A 2001 MIT thesis proposing an email-based communication protocol for low-bandwidth and intermittent network conditions, with applications for developing regions.
Other Researchers
A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, 2013
Book
2010s

A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, 2013

Faculty
MIT professor Robert McKersie's personal account of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s, drawn from his direct involvement in the era's pivotal moments.
Other Researchers
Adam Clayton Powell IV
Thesis
1990s

Transport phenomena in electron beam melting and evaporation, 1997

Student
A 1997 MIT doctoral thesis by Adam Clayton Powell IV on heat transfer and fluid dynamics in electron beam melting, with connections to the Powell family's legacy at the Institute.
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Yaw Yeboah in 1975
Oral History
1990s

Transcript: Interview with Yaw D. Yeboah, 1996

Alum
An oral history interview with Yaw D. Yeboah '75, a Ghanaian MIT alumnus who earned four degrees in four years, conducted for the Technology and the Dream project.
MIT Black History Project
Article
1980s

Dismissed prof sparks controversy, 1989

Faculty
A 1989 article on the controversial dismissal of MIT faculty member Marilyn Richardson, documenting tensions around race and academic freedom at the Institute.
Other Researchers
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The Physics of Karate, 1979
Article
2017
Other Researchers
1970s
Other Researchers
1970s
Article
A Scientific American article co-authored by MIT physicist Ronald McNair PhD '77 and his mentor Michael Feld, analyzing the biomechanics behind how martial artists break boards with bare hands.
Faculty
Counteracting Hate with Positive Diversity Stories, 2017
Article
2017
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Article
A 2017 article examining the friendship between MIT physicist Michael Feld and a Black colleague, and how their bond became a model for countering hate with positive diversity.
Alum
A Soldiers Home, 1892
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1890s
Other Researchers
1890s
Thesis
An 1892 architectural thesis by Robert Robinson Taylor, MIT's first Black graduate, documenting a design for a soldiers' home and marking a historic first in American architectural education.
Student
Comparative wearing tests on different makes of globe and gate valves, 1910
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1910s
Other Researchers
1910s
Thesis
The 1910 MIT thesis of Dallas Brown Jr. '10, one of the Institute's early Black graduates, on comparative wear testing of industrial valves used in mechanical engineering.
Student
The Negro Farmer [excerpt]
Article
2017
Other Researchers
1910s
Other Researchers
1910s
Article
An article excerpt by Robert Robinson Taylor '92 written for MIT's 1913 Negro Farmer publication, describing the work of training Black agricultural professionals at Tuskegee.
Alum
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, 2013
Book
2017
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A history of Bengali Muslim immigrants in early 20th-century America, tracing forgotten communities in Harlem and beyond, by MIT professor Vivek Bald.
Faculty
Crazy Enough To Try, 2015
Book
2017
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A 2015 book by MIT-connected author Joi Gordon encouraging readers to integrate personal passion into their professional lives, drawing on her own journey from student to nonprofit leader.
Alum
This Is How You Lose Her, 2012
Book
2017
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A novel by MIT professor Junot Diaz following the passions and losses of Yunior, a Dominican-American man navigating love and identity across New Jersey and the Caribbean.
Faculty
Phantasmal Media, 2013
Book
2017
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A 2013 MIT Press book by D. Fox Harrell examining how computing systems shape imagination, identity, memory, and social experience.
Faculty
Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, 2012
Book
2017
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A book by MIT professor Sally Haslanger examining social construction theory and its application to race, gender, and other contested social categories.
Faculty
Black Faces in White Places, 2010
Book
2017
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A 2010 book by MIT Sloan alumnus Randal Pinkett offering strategies for Black professionals navigating and succeeding in predominantly white institutions and industries.
Alum
CyPhrons: Code of the Realm, 2011
Book
2017
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A science fiction novel featuring CyPhrons, virtual beings navigating a coded realm, in a story of hope, faith, and perseverance by an MIT-connected author.
Alum
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