(Dartmouth College) Science is known for being objective and apolitical, but is it? Historically speaking, the voices of underrepresented groups have been missing from science, resulting in an often incomplete perspective of the world. Without these voices, we are left with skewed ideas about how race, ethnicity, class, sex, gender, and sexuality affect people’s lives. A new collection of essays in American Anthropologist unpacks how increasingly diverse scientists speak back to these problems, by offering new and more complete understandings of diversity.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/dc-rsm030719.php