What Do Physicists From Majority Groups Know and Believe about Race and Gender?

大多数群体的物理学家对种族和性别了解和相信什么？

• 批准号: 1712436
• 负责人: Melissa Dancy
• 金额: $ 29.92万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1712436&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: What; Do; Physicists; Majority; Groups

This project will address the significant need to increase diversity in physics by developing a robust understanding of the majority population's beliefs, knowledge, and attitudes toward the marginalization of white women and people of color. Most physicists in the United States are white men, which is a result of many factors, including unnecessary barriers that unfairly impede the success of white women and people of color. Increasing diversity in physics both improves the quality of physics research and is a matter of justice. This project is significant in its departure from previous work (which has generally focused on those from underrepresented minority groups) by focusing on white men, who constitute an overrepresented majority of physicists. Through interviews with 120 white male physics students and professors, this project will describe the majority group's understanding of race- and gender-based marginalization in physics. This information will be important for designing programs that productively involve both minority and majority populations in efforts to diversify physics. The three goals of the project are to (1) document and understand the majority population's knowledge of, beliefs about, and experience with race- and gender-based inequities in physics; (2) develop theories about the logic that underlies the majority population's understanding of race, gender, and marginalization in physics; and (3) use these theories to identify avenues for change. To achieve these goals, 120 self-identified white male physics students and faculty at five research universities will be interviewed about race and gender in physics. Interview data will be analyzed using a framework that describes marginalization along four dimensions: ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized. By filling the gap in knowledge about the majority group's views about race and gender, this project will advance the understanding of barriers to success faced by people from minority groups in physics.

该项目将通过深入了解大多数人对白人妇女和有色人种边缘化的信仰、知识和态度，来满足增加物理学多样性的重大需求。美国的大多数物理学家都是白人男性，这是多种因素造成的，包括不公平地阻碍白人女性和有色人种成功的不必要障碍。物理学的多样性的增加既提高了物理学研究的质量，又是一个正义问题。该项目的重要意义在于它与之前的工作（通常关注的是代表性不足的少数群体）不同，它关注的是白人，而白人在物理学家中所占比例过高。通过对 120 名白人男性物理学学生和教授的采访，该项目将描述大多数群体对物理学中基于种族和性别的边缘化的理解。这些信息对于设计能够有效地让少数族裔和多数族裔共同努力实现物理学多样化的计划非常重要。该项目的三个目标是（1）记录和理解大多数人对物理学中基于种族和性别的不平等的知识、信念和经验； (2) 发展关于大多数人对物理学中的种族、性别和边缘化理解的逻辑基础的理论； (3) 利用这些理论来确定变革的途径。为了实现这些目标，五所研究型大学的 120 名自称白人男性物理学的学生和教师将接受有关物理学中种族和性别的采访。将使用一个框架来分析访谈数据，该框架从四个维度描述边缘化：意识形态、制度、人际和内部化。通过填补大多数群体对种族和性别观点的知识空白，该项目将增进对少数群体在物理学领域取得成功的障碍的理解。