{"id":88729,"date":"2021-06-16T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=88729"},"modified":"2021-06-16T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:08:15","slug":"a-history-of-racism-against-black-inventors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/a-history-of-racism-against-black-inventors\/","title":{"rendered":"A History Of Racism Against Black Inventors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The history of Black people\u2019s contributions to the catalog of inventions that marked the Industrial Revolution has been largely muted. This period is considered one of the most innovative eras in world history, seeing the birth of major advances in agriculture, transportation, communications, manufacturing, and electricity that fueled rapid economic growth. With the exception of a few notable inventors who are regularly elevated during Black History Month\u2014e.g., George Washington Carver (peanut products) and Madam C. J. Walker (hair products)\u2014the disregard of many of the era\u2019s Black inventors not only whitewashes the historical record, but biases who we perceive to be innovators in the present. ~ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/the-black-innovators-who-elevated-the-united-states-reassessing-the-golden-age-of-invention\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brookings.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a brief story of inventor Granville Woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A History Of Racism Against Black Inventors\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2P1voLOStto?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of Black people\u2019s contributions to the catalog of inventions that marked the Industrial Revolution has been largely muted. This period is considered one of the most innovative eras in world history, seeing the birth of major advances in agriculture, transportation, communications, manufacturing, and electricity that fueled rapid economic growth. With the exception of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,148,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-events-sports-etc","category-history-math-science-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}