STEM nonfiction by Black, Latinx, Native authors
January 9, 2018 10:42 AM Subscribe
Just what it says in the title. I’m looking for good science writing or mathematical books by Black, Latinx, and Native/Indigenous authors. Any topic fine— popular science/math preferred but not required, so if you’ve got some super technical dissertation that’s just the best, hit me!
Best answer: Braiding Sweetgrass is a great book on ecology/natural history by Robin Wall Kimmerer, who is Potawatomi.
posted by Jeanne at 10:52 AM on January 9, 2018
posted by Jeanne at 10:52 AM on January 9, 2018
I don't think she has authored a book (yet) but I really get a lot out of Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's writing on the environment.
posted by pantarei70 at 10:53 AM on January 9, 2018
posted by pantarei70 at 10:53 AM on January 9, 2018
Best answer: Worth perusing Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Decolonising Science Reading List.
posted by quaking fajita at 10:57 AM on January 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by quaking fajita at 10:57 AM on January 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Safiya Noble is a great writer and excellent speaker; her forthcoming book "Algorithms of Oppression" promises to be great. She's at USC's Annenberg School of Communication.
posted by sockermom at 11:17 AM on January 9, 2018
posted by sockermom at 11:17 AM on January 9, 2018
Response by poster: Thanks all (these are all best answers but marking the actual published books/lists of books for later!)
posted by peppercorn at 1:58 PM on January 9, 2018
posted by peppercorn at 1:58 PM on January 9, 2018
Best answer: Not a book, but Piper Harron's PhD thesis, "The Equidistribution of Lattice Shapes of Rings of Integers of Cubic, Quartic, and Quintic Number Fields: an Artist’s Rendering" is available online and intended to be readable by non-mathematicians.
posted by batter_my_heart at 4:30 PM on January 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by batter_my_heart at 4:30 PM on January 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Robin Wall Kimmerer also wrote Gathering Moss, which I recommend. She's great.
posted by spindrifter at 6:42 PM on January 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by spindrifter at 6:42 PM on January 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Check out the Chinese Society for Environmental Literature, which is an organization and maybe a publishing house? not sure. Lots of excellent stuff from essays to books.
Li Quan wrote Rewilded: Saving the South China Tiger, which is excellent and shows you the scope of some of the Chinese conservation programs.
Ndyakira Amooti mostly published children's books but was one of the foremost environmental journalists of his time and place and helped define the field. He died quite young or I think he'd have written some seiminal books. From Uganda.
The Environmental Crisis of Delhi is an excellent book, I don't recall the authors name right now.
Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation is an excellent book about Iceland and hydropower. It's not in favor of hydro power. Or mining. Well worth reading.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a development economist who has written a great deal about development and related topics like capacity building, GM crops, inequality. She worked for the world bank, very interesting read. I'd read the GM crops book first.
Different Shades of Green is a review of environmental writing and cultural associations in Africa. It's very good.
posted by fshgrl at 9:49 PM on January 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Li Quan wrote Rewilded: Saving the South China Tiger, which is excellent and shows you the scope of some of the Chinese conservation programs.
Ndyakira Amooti mostly published children's books but was one of the foremost environmental journalists of his time and place and helped define the field. He died quite young or I think he'd have written some seiminal books. From Uganda.
The Environmental Crisis of Delhi is an excellent book, I don't recall the authors name right now.
Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation is an excellent book about Iceland and hydropower. It's not in favor of hydro power. Or mining. Well worth reading.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a development economist who has written a great deal about development and related topics like capacity building, GM crops, inequality. She worked for the world bank, very interesting read. I'd read the GM crops book first.
Different Shades of Green is a review of environmental writing and cultural associations in Africa. It's very good.
posted by fshgrl at 9:49 PM on January 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Simon Singh has written a bunch of good popular science books, my favourite is The Code Book.
posted by sukeban at 1:02 AM on January 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by sukeban at 1:02 AM on January 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
Oh, I've got another math one, this time an actual book: Cakes, Custards, and Category Theory, by Eugenia Cheng. It looks like she's published other works too -- just look at her author page.
posted by batter_my_heart at 12:41 AM on January 15, 2018
posted by batter_my_heart at 12:41 AM on January 15, 2018
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