The ASM Journals Committee Values the Contributions of Black Microbiologists
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Black lives matter. The ongoing problem of police brutality and the resulting deaths of George Floyd (1), Breonna Taylor (2), and many other Black people in the United States (3) has rightly shaken the country. Acts of racism should cause us to question the level to which we have personally participated in the systems of racial inequity that facilitate such acts. We all have an obligation to identify the ways that systemic racism functions in our society and in science. As scientists, we prefer to believe that we are driven by data and are immune to such detrimental behaviors. Yet, if we are honest, we know that this is not always true.
Source: mBio
Authors: Patrick D. Schloss, Melissa Junior, Rebecca Alvania, Cesar A. Arias, Andreas Baumler, Arturo Casadevall, Corrella Detweiler, Harold Drake, Jack Gilbert, Michael J. Imperiale, Susan Lovett, Stanley Maloy, Alexander J. McAdam, Irene L. G. Newton, Michael J. Sadowsky, Rozanne M. Sandri-Goldin, Thomas J. Silhavy, Peter Tontonoz, Jo-Anne H. Young, Craig E. Cameron, Isaac Cann, A. Oveta Fuller, Ariangela J. Kozik
Institutions: University of Michigan, American Society for Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of California, Davis, Johns Hopkins University, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Bayreuth, University of California San Diego, Brandeis University, San Diego State University, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University, University of Minnesota, University of California, Irvine, Princeton University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Michigan Medicine
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,900
OpenAlex ID: W3046446836