Token representation in science imagery masks persistent structural discrimination

Evidence

We are used to seeing pictures of at least token African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians in photographs of laboratories, university science classes, and ads for science, medical, and engineering products and jobs. Scientific honors now occasionally go to scientists of non-European descent in the USA. Yet there is a long way to go before racial discrimination disappears from the social structure of the sciences. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1580

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the idea of nominal inclusion masking deeper exclusion, which resonates with the impostor-symbol dynamic in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the surface inclusion of Home Boy’s characters.