Evelynn M. Hammonds

Evelynn Maxine Hammonds (born 1953) is an American feminist and scholar. She is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College. Quotes You can't pay attention to those negative voices. This doesn't come naturally for a lot of people, so you have to fight through the perceptions that others have of you and not use those things as excuses to not succeed in what you are doing. In my program at Georgia Tech, there were three African-American men, three white women, and I was the only African-American woman. It was a very anti-woman, anti-minority culture While challenges are being made to the exclusion of people of color in U.S. science and technology, progress toward eliminating the structural exclusion has been a long and difficult slog America that did not believe in negro talent despite the scientific evidence that he and other African Americans had produced. You will fail, you should fail. But if you stick with it, and let your peculiarities become assets, you will succeed.” Commencement address at Bates College. We made race, We can unmake it.” Reflecting on how race is socially constructed and how that understanding can change our engagement with science and inequality. External links