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Publications

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1980s

Report on Issues, Implications and Recommendations Related to Retention of Undergraduate Minority Students: Science and Engineering Fields, 1987

Administrator
A report prepared for MIT by Clarence G. Williams examining retention barriers for Black and minority undergraduates in science and engineering fields.
Other Researchers
Discrimination Conference, 1955
Article
1950s

Discrimination Conference Issue of The Tech, 1955

Student
The March 1955 issue of MIT's student newspaper covering the National Conference on Selectivity and Discrimination in American Universities, held on campus.
Other Researchers
Tuskegee (Weather) Airmen article splash
Article
2000s

Tuskegee (Weather) Airmen: Black Meteorologists in World War II, 2006

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An article documenting the role of MIT-trained Black meteorologists, including Tuskegee Airmen, in advancing WWII weather forecasting and American military aviation.
Other Researchers
Article
2010s

Including the Excluded: Concepts for Successful Integration of the US Academy, 2014

Faculty
A lecture by MIT professor James Sherley on concepts for integrating underrepresented groups into the US scientific enterprise, delivered at a Johns Hopkins retreat.
Other Researchers
Paper
2000s

Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi, 2006

Faculty
A 2006 public health study examining how civil rights legislation and the War on Poverty drove convergence in Black and white infant mortality rates in the rural South.
Other Researchers
Paper
1960s

Black Capitalism and Black Supermarkets, 1969

Faculty
A 1969 article by MIT economist Gordon Bloom examining the economics and social dimensions of Black-owned businesses and supermarkets in urban America.
Other Researchers
Article
2000s

MIT's Black Hole: Dr. James L. Sherley is just the latest professor to protest the lack of Black tenured faculty at MIT, 2007

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An article examining the broader pattern of Black faculty departures from MIT, placing the James Sherley case in the context of a longer institutional history.
Other Researchers
James L. Sherley
Article
2000s

An Avoidable Black Eye for MIT: Professor James Sherley Is Dismissed and His Laboratory Padlocked, 2007

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An analysis of the 2007 termination of MIT stem-cell researcher James L. Sherley, whose dismissal and hunger strike sparked a campus-wide debate on race and tenure.
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James L. Sherley
Article
2000s

It's No Picnic for Black Faculty at MIT, 2007

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A 2007 study documenting that Black faculty represent only about 3 percent of MIT's total faculty, analyzing the barriers to recruitment and retention.
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An Outline of the Structure of Shilha, 1958
Book
2017
Other Researchers
1950s
Other Researchers
1950s
Book
A 1958 scholarly work on the structure of Shilha, a Berber language spoken in southwest Morocco, authored by MIT linguist Joseph Applegate.
Faculty
The Lost Revolution: Capitalism, democracy and Black citizenship in early 20th-century America's biggest race conflicts, 2007
Thesis
2018
Other Researchers
2000s
Other Researchers
2000s
Thesis
A 2007 MIT thesis by Kali-Ahset Amen examining how racial conflict and inequality shaped Black citizenship and political agency in early 20th-century America.
Student
THE TECH: Perspectives on Diversity, 2004
Article
2018
Other Researchers
2000s
Other Researchers
2000s
Article
A student newspaper feature produced as part of MIT's Martin Luther King Jr. Design Seminar, offering diverse personal perspectives on race and diversity at the Institute in 2004.
Student
The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production, 2018
Book
2018
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
A book by MIT professor Clapperton Mavhunga examining how African hunters and knowledge producers in Zimbabwe shaped colonial science and wildlife management.
Faculty
Transcript: Interview with Gloria Green, 1997
Oral History
2017
MIT Black History Project
1990s
MIT Black History Project
1990s
Oral History
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.
Multiple
Race in Digital Space: Conceptualizing the Media Project, 2014
Article
2018
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Article
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.
Visiting
Developing a paradigm for visualizing architecture using computational methods : an analysis of the Havana Project by Lebbeus Woods, 1996
Thesis
2017
Other Researchers
1990s
Other Researchers
1990s
Thesis
A 1996 MIT thesis developing computational visualization methods for architectural design, using Lebbeus Woods's Havana Project as a case study.
Student
A Reliable Low Bandwidth Email-based Communication Protocol, 2001
Thesis
2018
Other Researchers
2000s
Other Researchers
2000s
Thesis
A 2001 MIT thesis proposing an email-based communication protocol for low-bandwidth and intermittent network conditions, with applications for developing regions.
Student
A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, 2013
Book
2018
Other Researchers
2010s
Other Researchers
2010s
Book
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.
Faculty
Transport phenomena in electron beam melting and evaporation, 1997
Thesis
2018
Other Researchers
1990s
Other Researchers
1990s
Thesis
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.
Student
Transcript: Interview with Yaw D. Yeboah, 1996
Oral History
2017
MIT Black History Project
1990s
MIT Black History Project
1990s
Oral History
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.
Alum
Dismissed prof sparks controversy, 1989
Article
2018
Other Researchers
1980s
Other Researchers
1980s
Article
A 1989 article on the controversial dismissal of MIT faculty member Marilyn Richardson, documenting tensions around race and academic freedom at the Institute.
Faculty
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