{"id":2993,"date":"2017-03-26T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2017-03-26T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T17:44:07","slug":"third-event-response-ella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2017\/03\/26\/third-event-response-ella\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Event Response – Ella"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, I went to a screening of Hidden Figures<\/em> hosted by UR Common Ground. This group works to promote\u00a0diversity and inclusion on our campus, and I think that the screening of this movie was a great event for them to host. This movie is based on a true story; the African-American female mathematicians working for NASA that were instrumental in the\u00a0success of the US during the Space Race of the 1960s. The film pointed out the immense obstacles this group of women had to overcome simply to be able to do their jobs and be taken seriously. The ways in which these women persevered\u00a0was incredible. They\u00a0proceeded\u00a0to thrive in an agency that was dominated by white males.<\/p>\n

I think this movie was a great choice\u00a0to show on this campus because it sparked discussion about race and privilege. Racism is still deeply engrained in American society, and is not as departed from the prejudice and practices that existed in the 1960s. The story of these women is incredibly important to share because of how their names and impact had been virtually overlooked and forgotten about. These women received much less\u00a0credit than they deserved for the great work they had done for NASA. This movie was a step in the right direction in highlighting the impact of largely silenced and invisible people, many times\u00a0women and minorities,\u00a0that often work behind the scenes of great scientific progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, I went to a screening of Hidden Figures hosted by UR Common Ground. This group works to promote\u00a0diversity and inclusion on our campus, and I think that the screening of this movie was a great event for them to host. This movie is based on a true story; the African-American female mathematicians working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}