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The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.
By Margot Lee Shetterly :
EPub Edition, HarperCollins Publishers. September 2016 ISBN: 9780062363619.
This book is a well-researched non – fiction, history, science and feminism based biography that talks of the phenomenal true story of 3 black female - Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Johnson- mathematicians at NASA. It unleashes how their calculations and brilliance helped fuel and shape mankind’s greatest achievements in the space race. As well astronomically talented female mathematicians – in an unjust atmosphere of ugly patriarchal system, inequality and segregation- it wasn’t easy as they went given the titles and pay they deserved. To feminism this isn’t just a biography but rather a collection of steps and ideologies aimed at defining political, economic and social justice for women – dealing from all angles with the feminist theory. As depicted by the title of this book, the great works of these women were shamed for and hence have not only been hidden but also …show more content…

Women where not gaining economic power as a group at that time, NASA made it impossible for that to happen due to racial segregation. This is shown is some of the chapters nine of the book ‘breaking barriers,’ Dorothy Vaughan is seen working the work of a supervisor without the title for more than one year, even after making an application for the position but as a black women NASA couldn’t promote her. Black women suffered more vulnerability than white females says Margot Lee.This taught me that women’s interest we divided along class and racial lines and that NASA corporate accomplishment were co-opted by the same colonial capitalist systems that oppressed and disable black empowerment in South

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These opportunities allowed Dorothy to become a well known advocate for women's rights in the work force. Dorothy often promoted ideas of women earning an equal pay as well as an increased salary, which at the time did not exist. Vaughan had finally found her spot in society, where she only thought she would end up for a limited time only, eventually led to decades. After being promoted Dorothy lead the West Area Computing for another decade before NACA finally started transitioning into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or better known as NASA. During this transition, NASA made it a goal to completely abolish any form of segregation inside their workplace.

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