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Lädt ... Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016. Auflage)von Margot Lee Shetterly (Autor)
Werk-InformationenHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race von Margot Lee Shetterly
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I so wanted to like this book...but I didn't. I listened to this one in the car. Reader was fine, I don't think that was the issue for why this one didn't click for me. History is linear...and the way this is told doesn't feel linear. It feels more like bits of story tossed together. Like clumps of Confetti. Or those family photos you've stashed away: this box is for pics taken in about 1963, and here are some from that pinewood derby thing...bunched, not laid out. I just couldn't find an anchor in the story and really couldn't tell one 'key' character from the other. This irritates me- this is an important story. I'm annoyed it wasn't told better. As my eyes and ears glazed over I kept thinking about Seabiscuit, or The Boys In The Boat, or Unbroken... those are nonfiction, well researched, and absolutely gripping. Hidden Figures deals a with several key issues: The Space Race, Civil rights, and Women's rights. ...this should have been gripping! So disapointed. I'm very appreciative of the script writers that adapted this thing into an enjoyable movie - they had their work cut out for them! ( ) "Hidden Figures" tells the inspiring true story of Black women mathematicians who played pivotal roles in America's space exploration during the 1960s. Authored by Margot Lee Shetterly, this book skillfully weaves together historical facts and personal narratives, making it both informative and captivating. It's a valuable resource for students, offering a window into the challenges faced by minorities in STEM fields and the power of perseverance. Through discussions and reflections prompted by this text, students can explore themes of diversity, gender equality, and the importance of recognizing overlooked contributions in history. Moreover, it encourages deeper research and inquiry into the lives and legacies of these extraordinary women. Hidden Figures mainly tells the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson, African-American women who set the precedent for other black females to follow in the fields of mathematics and engineering at NASA. There are a couple of other women that the book touches on but not as in-depth as these three amazing women. 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.
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.” Wird wiedererzählt inBearbeitet/umgesetzt inAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
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HTML: The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens. Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future. .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorMargot Lee Shetterlys Buch Hidden Figures wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
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