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Laddar... Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (utgåvan 2016)av Margot Lee Shetterly (Författare)
VerksinformationHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race av Margot Lee Shetterly
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I love learning about women, and minority women especially, absolutely crushing it and just being invaluable in untold ways. These women are so impressive, not just for their race or gender but for the spectacular grasp on math that they had. They were brilliant clearly intimidating to their white male coworkers. I felt like their stories didn't have the teeth I expected, so it wasn't quite as gripping as I had hoped. Not that I want anyone to relive their racial trauma, but it was a surprisingly civil work environment for the time? I have to imagine they left a lot of the pain out of their stories to remain more palatable. So to be fair I bought this on audible when I had to use a credit quickly and given the "Hollywood" cover I assumed it was a narrative... oops! Once I got over the initial shock of it being very nonfiction research I did enjoy learning about these amazing women and all they accomplished in so many areas. Since I listened to the book keeping the stories straight as the author hopped around the different women was difficult. I should have loved this book. I wanted to love this book. It tells us of extraordinary women breaking boundaries of math, science, race, sexism, and culture through their brains and grit and determination and the brilliance to recognize an opportunity and drive the wedge of themselves into it and make a place for themselves and their children to follow. Unfortunately, the storytelling is so dry and the narrative so disconnected that I really struggled with it. Perhaps this would have been better in a bound version than audio, I don’t know. Nevertheless, I recommend making the effort. I’d never heard of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, or Christine Darden before, and that’s a damn shame. I’m glad I know their stories now. Audiobook, borrowed from my public library. Robin Miles provides an excellent performance. I sadly had not known the story of these four women before reading this. To be honest, I do not know much about my country’s history regarding monumental moments such as the space race. This biography helped me understand and made me want to learn more. The strength these four women had, as well as all the women in their various departments, to not only speak up and show their worth in a time where not only women but black women were seen as less, was inspiring. I highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in learning more about the internal workings that allowed us to not only launch into space but also land on the moon. Those beginning calculations helped shape and progress so much more in the world.
Ms. Shetterly happened upon the idea for the book six years ago, when she and her husband, Aran Shetterly, then living in Mexico, were visiting her parents here. The couple and Ms. Shetterly’s father were driving around in his minivan when he mentioned, very casually, that one of Ms. Shetterly’s former Sunday school teachers had worked as a mathematician at NASA, and that another woman she knew calculated rocket trajectories for famous astronauts. Ms. Shetterly remembers her husband perking up and asking why he had never heard this tale before. “I knew women who worked at NASA as mathematicians and engineers,” Ms. Shetterly said, “but it took someone from the outside saying, ‘Wait a minute’ for me to see the story there.” Återberättas iHar bearbetningenPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Som kvinnor och afroamerikaner hade de alla odds emot sig. Det här är den otroliga och sanna historien om fyra matematiker på NASA som möjliggjorde de amerikanska framgångarna i rymdkapplöpningen mot Sovjetunionen. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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NASA, when these women started working there, was known as NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics). During WWII, NACA hired women as female computers who essentially did the work of mathematicians but were paid less.
I enjoyed how this book relayed the stories of each woman; however, I felt that it was a dry read overall. It is not like the movie although there are some aspects of the movie in the book. I liked the Epilogue at the end which discussed these women and their lives after they retired. ( )