Subject: African-American Women in the Sciences (LC Bibliography)

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Science Reference Section, Science and Technology Division Library of Congress, 10 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20540-5580

SUDOC:                  LC 33.10:93-4
ISSN:                   0090-5232
Shipping List No.:      94-0101-P

     AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE SCIENCES AND RELATED
DISCIPLINES
                       Compiled by Gail T. Austin

TB 93-4 August 1993

SCOPE: This guide lists sources documenting the contributions of African-American women in science, technology, medicine, and related disciplines. Of possible interest to users of this compilation are _Blacks in Science and Related Disciplines_(TB 89-9) and _Women in the Sciences_(TB 90-6). Not an exhaustive treatment of the subject, this _Tracer Bullet_, as the name of the series implies, is designed to put the reader "on target."

INTRODUCTIONS

[Black women in science and technology] _Sage, a scholarly journal on Black women_, v.6, fall 1989:2-54. ports.

        E185.86.S24, v. 6 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>
        Includes bibliographic references.
        Contents:  Mickens, R.  Achieving against the odds. --Manning,
  K.R. Roger Arliner Young, scientist.--Patterson, R.M. Black women in the
  biological sciences.--Malcom, S.  Increasing the participation of Black
  women in science and technology.--Bozeman, S. T. Black women
  mathematicians: in short supply.--Thomas, V. L.  Black women engineers
  and technologists.--Sluby, P.C.  Black women and inventions.--Falconer,
  E. Z. Close-up.  A story of success: the sciences at Spelman College.
  --Cobb, J.P. A life in science: research and service.--Granville, E. B. My
  life as a mathematician.--King, R. C.  Becoming a scientist: an
  important career decision.--Patrick, J. R.  Trials, tribulations,
  triumphs.--Mickens, R. Resource round-up. Selected bibliography on
  women and minorities in science.
 
Harding, Sandra G.  "... and race"? Toward the science questions in
  global feminisms.  In her _Whose science? Whose knowledge?  Thinking
  from women's lives._  Ithaca, Cornell University Press, c1991.  p.
  191-217.
        Q130.H37 1991
 
Spector, Barbara.  Large-scale mentoring program succeeds for women scientists.
  _The Scientist_, v. 7, July 26, 1993: 1, 6.
        Pamphlet box <SciRR>

SUBJECT HEADINGS used by the Library of Congress, under which books on African-American women in the sciences can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs, include the following:

AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN--BIBLIOGRAPHY

Works, mostly biographical, on Afro-American women specializing in specific scientific and technical fields are found under subject headings such as:

     AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN CHEMISTS
     AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS
 
Works, mostly biographical, on both Afro-American men and women in
scientific and technical fields, often including material on
Afro-American women, are found under headings such as:
 
     AFRO-AMERICAN AGRICULTURISTS
     AFRO-AMERICAN AIR PILOTS
     AFRO-AMERICAN CHEMISTS
     AFRO-AMERICAN DENTISTS
     AFRO-AMERICAN ENGINEERS
     AFRO-AMERICAN INVENTORS
     AFRO-AMERICAN MATHEMATICIANS
     AFRO-AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS
     AFRO-AMERICAN PHYSICIANS
     AFRO-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS
 
Works, mostly biographical, on women in scientific and technical fields,
including Afro-American women, and found under subject headings, often
subdivided by UNITED STATES, such as:
 
     WOMEN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS
     WOMEN AIR PILOTS
     WOMEN ASTRONOMERS
     WOMEN BIOLOGISTS
     WOMEN ENGINEERS
     WOMEN GEOLOGISTS
     WOMEN NUTRITIONISTS
     WOMEN SCIENTISTS
 
Works that discuss all aspects of women as a class of persons in
scientific and technical fields are found under subject headings, often
subdivided by UNITED STATES, such as:
 
     WOMEN IN AERONAUTICS
     WOMEN IN ENGINEERING
     WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS
     WOMEN IN MEDICINE
 
Works that discuss all aspects of Afro-Americans as a class of persons
in scientific and technical fields, often including women, are found
under subject headings such as:
 
     AFRO-AMERICANS IN AERONAUTICS
     AFRO-AMERICANS IN ASTRONAUTICS
     AFRO-AMERICANS IN DENTISTRY
     AFRO-AMERICANS IN MEDICINE
 
Works that may contain references to Afro-Americans, including women,
may be included under subject headings such as:
 
     MINORITIES IN DENTISTRY
     MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING
     MINORITIES IN MEDICINE
     MINORITIES IN SCIENCE
     MINORITIES IN TECHNOLOGY
     SEX DISCRIMINATION IN SCIENCE
 
Please note that prior to 1976 the Library of Congress used the subject
heading "Negroes" to refer to all persons of African descent.  In 1976
the term "Negroes" was discontinued and the subject headings
"Afro-American" and "Blacks" were added to refer to persons of
African
descent within and outside the United States respectively, but the
cataloging of pre-1976 books was not changed; books published prior to
1976 were not recataloged.

BASIC TEXTS

Aptheker, Bettina. _Woman's legacy: essays on race, sex, and class in American history._ Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. 177p.

E158.86.A67 1982
See especially _Quest for dignity: Black women in the professions, 1865-1900_: p. 89-110.

_Black mathematicians and their works._ Edited by Virginia K. Newell and others. Ardmore, Pa., Dorrance, c1980. 327p. Includes bibliographies.

QA28.B58 <SciRR>

_Black women in the nursing profession: a documentary history._ Edited with an introduction by Darlene Clark Hine. New York, Garland, 1985. 165 p. Includes bibliographies.

RT83.5.B57 1985

Brodie, James Michael. _Created equal: the lives and ideas of Black American innovators._ New York, W. Morrow, c1993. 208 p.

E185.96.B835 1993

Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth. _The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1990._ 2nd ed. New York, National League for Nursing Press, c1991. 301 p. Bibliography: p. 261-266.

RT83.5.C37 1986b

_A Century of Black photographers, 1840-1960._ Edited by Valencia Hollins Coar. Providence, R.I., Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, c1983. 192 p. Bibliography: 191-192.

TR646.U6P763 1983 <P&P>
Catalog of an exhibition held Mar. 31, 1983 to Aug. 26, 1984 at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and other institutions.

Douglas, Deborah G. _United States women in aviation, 1940-1985._ Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. 142 p. (Smithsonian studies in air and space, no. 7)

TL521.D68 1990 <MRR>

Driskell, Claude Evans. _History of Chicago Black dental professionals, 1850-1983._ Chicago, C. E. Driskell, c1982. 122p. Bibliography: p. 122.

RK34.U7C44 1982

Dummett, Clifton O., and Lois Doyle Dummett. _Afro-Americans in dentistry: sequence and consequence of events._ Los Angeles, C. Dummett, c1978. 144 p. Bibliography: p. 124-127.

RK60.45.D85

Guthrie, Robert V. _Even the rat was white: a historical view of psychology._ New York, Harper & Row, c1976. 224 p. Bibliography: p. 209-217.

BF105.G87

Hardesty, Von, and Dominick Pisano. _Black wings: the American Black in aviation._ Washington, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1983. 80p. Bibliography: p. 79-80.

TL553.H34 1983

Holden, Henry M., and Lori Griffith. _Ladybirds: the untold story of women pilots in America._ Freedom, N.J., Black Hawk Pub. Co., c1991. 215 p. Bibliography: p. 205-209.

TL521.H58 1991

Ives, Patricia Carter. _Creativity and inventions: the genius of Afro-Americans and women in the United States and their patents._ Arlington, Va., Research Unlimited, 1987. 88 p. Bibliography: p. 81-86.

T21.I84 1987 <SciRR>

Jakeman, Robert J. _The divided skies: establishing segregated flight training at Tuskegee, Alabama, 1934-1942._ Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, c1992. 416 p. Bibliography: p. [391]-402.

TL713.T87J35 1992

James, Portia P. _The real McCoy: African-American invention and innovation, 1619-1930._ Washington, published for the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1989. 110 p. Bibliography: p. 103-106.

T39.J28 1989

Johnson, Jesse J. _Black women in the Armed Forces, 1942-1974: (a pictorial history)._ Hampton, Va., Johnson, c1974. 110 p.

E185.63.J633

Macdonald, Anne L. _Feminine ingenuity: women and invention in America._ New York, Ballantine Books, 1992. 514 p. Bibliography: p.445-491.

T36.M33 1992 <SciRR>

Moldow, Gloria. _Women doctors in gilded-age Washington: race, gender, and professionalization._ Urbana, University of Illinois Press, c1987. 246 p. Bibliography: p. 217-239.

R692.M6 1987

Morais, Herbert M. _The history of the Negro in medicine._ 3rd ed. New York, Publishers Co., [1969]. 322 p. Bibliography: p. 283-309.

R695.M6 1969 <MRR>
Published under the auspices of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

_The Negro almanac: a reference work on the African American._ Compiled and edited by Harry A. Ploski and James Williams. 5th ed. Detroit, Gale Research Inc., c1989. 1622 p. Bibliography: p. 1556-1582.

E185.N385 1989 <MRR Ref Desk>

Oakes, Claudia M. _United States women in aviation, 1930-1939._ Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, c1991. 70 p. Bibliography: p. 69-70.

TL521.O17 1991 <SciRR>

Royster, Jacqueline Jones. _Women as healers: a noble tradition._ Atlanta, Women's Research and Resource Center, Spelman College, c1983. 24 p. Bibliography: p. 18-22.

R692.R69 1983
"Publication of an exhibition at Spelman College, Women's Research and

Resource Center, Atlanta, Georgia, June 24, 1983 to June 31, 1984."

Schiebinger, Londa L. _The mind has no sex? women in the origins of modern science._ Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1989. 355 p. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 329-345.

Q130.S32 1989 <SciRR>

_Send us a lady physician: women doctors in America, 1835-1920._ Edited by Ruth J. Abram. New York, Norton, c1985. 255p.

R692.S46 1985
Extensive bibliographic references.

Stanley, Autumn. _Mothers and daughters of invention: notes for a revised history of technology._ Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1993. 1116 p. Bibliography: p. 917-1041.

T36.S73 1993 <SciRR>
See index under "Black women inventors."

_We are your sisters: Black women in the nineteenth century._ Edited by Dorothy Sterling. New York, W. W. Norton, c1984. 535 p. Bibliography: p. [499]-503.

E185.86.W43 1984
See especially "Representative women and a new generation": p. 418-450.

SPECIALIZED TITLES

• Biographical Material

_Black women in America: an historical encyclopedia._ Editor, Darlene Clark Hine. Associate editors, Elsa Barkley Brown, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. Brooklyn, N.Y., Carlson Pub., 1993. 2 v. (1530 p.) Bibliography: p. 1333-1344.

E185.86.B542 1993 <MRR Ref Desk> See especially entries for aviators, nurses, mathematicians, physicians, and scientists in "Classified list of biographical entries": v. 2, p. 1345-1352.

_A Century of Black surgeons: the U.S.A. experience._ Edited by Claude H. Organ, Jr. and Margaret M. Kosiba. Norman, Okla., Transcript Press, c1987. 2 v. (973 p.) Bibliography: v.2, p. 943-946.

RD27.34.C46 1987

Earley, Charity Adams. _One woman's army: a Black officer remembers the WAC._ College Station, Texas A&M University Press, c1989. 218 p. (Texas A&M University military history series, 12)

D811.E23 1989

_Epic Lives: one hundred Black women who made a difference._ Jessie Carney Smith, editor. Detroit, Visible Ink Press, c1993. 632 p. Bibliography: p. 603-632.

E185.96.E65 1993
Partial contents: Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, nursing administrator.--Jewel Plummer Cobb, biologist, university president.--Bessie Coleman, aviator. --Effie O'Neal Ellis, physician, health administrator.--Lucille C. Gunning, pediatrician.--Mae C. Jemison, astronaut, physician, government official.

Hawkins, Walter L. _African American biographies: profiles of 558 current men and women._ Jefferson, N.C., McFarland, c1992. 490p.

E185.96.H38 1992 <MRR Biog>

Ho, James K. K. _Black engineers in the United States--a directory._ Washington, Howard University Press, 1974. 281 p.

TA12.H6
Partial contents: Delores Brown.--Joan M. Clark.--Sarah Harper.--Pauline Harris.--Sandra L. Mathias.-- Phyllis A. Norris.--Mary Anne Sutton.--Pamela J. Webb.--Vera N. Wilson.

Jackson, George F. _Black women, makers of history: a portrait._ Rev. ed. Sacramento, Calif., Fong & Fong, c1977. 289 + 10 p. Bibliography: 291-292.

E185.96.J25 1977
See especially sections on Education, Medical, and Military.

Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence. _Balm of Gilead: journey of a healer._ Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1988. 321 p.

RC339.52.L39L54 1988

Logan, Onnie Lee. _Motherwit, an Alabama midwife's story._ New York, Dutton, c1989. 177 p.

RG950.L64A3 1989

Majors, Monroe A. _Noted Negro women, their triumphs and activities._ Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971 [c1893]. 365 p.

E185.96.M23 1971 <MRR Biog>

Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne. _Viewfinders: Black women photographers._ New York, Dodd, Mead, c1986. 201 p.

TR139.M63 1986 <P&P>

_Notable American women, 1607-1950: a biographical dictionary._ Edward T. James, editor. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. 3 v.

CT3260.N57 <B&E Biog>
"Prepared under the auspices of Radcliffe College."

O'Hern, Elizabeth Moot. _Profiles of pioneer women scientists._ Washington, Acropolis Books, c1985. 264 p. Bibliography: p. 235-250.

R153.O36 1985

Rich, Doris L. _Queen Bess: daredevil aviator._ Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. 153 p. Bibliography: 137-141.

TL540.C646R52 1993

Sammons, Vivian O. _Blacks in science and medicine._ New York, Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1990. 293 p. Bibliography: p. 261-268.

Q141.B58 1990 <SciRR Desk>

Scally, M. Anthony. _Medicine, motherhood, and mercy: the story of a Black woman doctor._ Washington, Associated Publishers, c1979. 121 p. Bibliography: p. 119-121.

R154.E433S33 1979

_Who's who among Black Americans._ Detroit, Gale Research, Inc., <1990/91->

E185.96.W52 <B&E Biog>

_Women in medicine: a bibliography of the literature on women physicians._ Compiled and edited by Sandra L. Chaff and others. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1977.

Z7963.M43W65 <SciRR> and <MRR>

• Career Related Material

_Blacks, science, and American education._ Edited by Willie Pearson, Jr., and H. Kenneth Bechtel. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, c1989. 174 p. Bibliography: p. 153-165.

Q149.U5B57 1989

_Estimates and projections of Black and Hispanic physicians, dentists, and pharmacists to 2010._ Rockville, Md., U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, Division of Disadvantaged Assistance, 1986. 63 p. (DHHS publication, no. (HRA)82-10)

R695.E88 1986
Includes bibliographic references.

_Financial aid for minorities._ Garrett Park, Md., Garrett Park Press, c1987-c1993. 6 v.

LB2337.2.F57 1987 <MRR>
Rev. ed. of 8 pt. set published 1980-81 with collective titles _Financial aid for minorities_ or _Financial assistance for minorities._ Partial contents: [1] Financial aid for minorities: awards open to students with any major.--[4] Financial aid for minorities in engineering and science.-- [5] Financial aid for minorities in health fields.

_Grants at a glance: a directory of financial resources of women in science._ 2nd ed. Project Director, Stephanie J. Bird. Editors, Melissa Boulin and Deborah C. Fort. Washington, Association for Women in Science, c1992. 115 p.

Q130.G73 1992 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>

_A Hand up: women mentoring women in science._ Editor, Deborah C. Fort. Washington, Association for Women in Science, c1993. 349 p.

Q130.H36 1993 <SciRR>

Lecca, Pedro J., and Thomas D. Watts. _Pathways for minorities into the health professions._ Lanham, University Press of America, c1989. 88 p. Bibliography: p. 72-75.

R745.L455 1989

Marrett, Cora Bagley. _Minority females in high school mathematics and science._ Madison, Wis., Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin, 1982. 70 p. Bibliography: p. 59-65.

QA27.5.M37 1982

Oakes, Jeannie. _Lost talent: the underparticipation of women, minorities, and disabled persons in science._ Santa Monica, Calif., Rand, 1990. 104 p. "R-3374-NSF/RC." Bibliography: p. 85-104.

Q130.O2 1990

_Science and engineering programs: on target for women?_ Marsha Lakes Matyas and Linda Skidmore Dix, editors. Washington, National Academy Press, 1992. 216 p.

Q130.S325 1992
"Ad Hoc Panel on Interventions, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council."

Sokoloff, Natalie J. _Black women and white women in the professions: occupational segregation by race and gender, 1960-1980._ New York, Routledge, 1992. 175 p. Bibliography: p. 159-169.

HD6054.2.U6S65 1992

Women and minorities in science and engineering: an update. Update prepared by Patricia E. White. Washington, National Science Foundation, Jan. 1992. 187 p. (NSF 92-303) "N93-12070."

Minorities in science Vertical file <SciRR>

Yentsch, Clarice M., and Carl J. Sindermann. _The woman scientist: meeting the challenges for a successful career._ New York, Plenum Press, c1992. 271 p.

Q130.Y46 1992

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

_Ethnic minority perspectives on clinical training and services in psychology._ Hector F. Myers and others, editors. Washington, American Psychological Association, c1991. 194 p.

RC467.7.E84 1991
Based on a series of three conferences held in 1988, sponsored by the NIMH.

_Lessons for the future: minorities in math, science, and engineering at community colleges. Enid B. Jones, editor. Washington, American Association of Community Colleges, National Center for Higher Education, c1993. 89 p. (AACC special reports, no. 2)

QA13.L47 1993
Papers presented at a roundtable convened by AACC in Washington, D.C., Aug. 13-14, 1992.

_Toward ethnic diversification in psychology education and training. Edited by George Stricker and others. Washington, American Psychological Association, 1990. 251 p.

BF77.T68 1990
Papers of a National Council of Schools of Professional Psychology (NCSPP) conference held in Puerto Rico during winter of 1988-1989. Bibliography: 235-247.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on women in Science and Engineering. _Women in science and engineering: increasing their numbers in the 1990s: a statement on policy and strategy, from the Committee on Women and Engineering, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council._ Washington, National Academy Press, 1991. 152 p. Bibliography: p. 115-126.

Q130.N38 1991

Nissen, Sally H. _Sourcing program to identify outstanding women and ethnic minorities in research and research management._ Prepared under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy. Livermore, Calif., Employment Equity and Compliance Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Aug. 1991. 85 p.

DE92 000097 <SciRR>

Pfeffer, Richard L., and Robin J. Kung. _DOD science and engineering apprenticeship program for high school minorities and women: summer 1990 activities._ Final report. Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research at Florida State University and administered by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute. Tallahassee, Fla., Florida State University, Jan. 1991. 27 p.

AD-A231 910 <SciRR>

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology. _Women, minorities, and the disabled in science and technology: hearing... One Hundredth Congress, second session, June 28, 1988._ Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1988 183 p.

KF27.S399 1988l <Law>

United States. Task Force on Women, Minorities, and the Handicapped in Science and Technology. _Changing America: the new face of science and engineering: final report._ Washington, Task Force on Women, Minorities and the Handicapped in Science and Technology, 1989. 46 p.

Q130.U55 1989

DISSERTATIONS can be located by using the following indexes and CD-ROM, all located in the Library [of Congress]'s Main Reading Room:

     _Comprehensive Dissertation Index 1861/1972-_(1973- annual)