In the article "Considering The Impact Of Racial Stigmas And Science Identity: Persistence Among Biomedical And Behavioral Science Aspirants" by Sylvia Hurtado, et al., the authors claim that underrepresented minorities (consisting of African American, Latino/a, and Native American) do not persist with biomedical and behavioral science degrees due to negative racial interactions that they experience. To support this claim, the authors conduct an experiment where many underrepresented minority students are surveyed, and the conclusion of this experiment is that underrepresented minorities who have experienced less negative racial interactions are more likely to continue with their chosen biomedical or behavioral science degree compared to those who have experienced more negative racial interactions. The purpose of this article is to present research about minorities regarding their particular persistence with biomedical and behavioral science degrees, in order to bring to light the issue so that solutions can be formulated based off of the empirical data collected by the experiment. The audience of this article is a group of educated people with an interest in psychology with race, because the article is very long and contains large amounts of statistical data and formulas which would discourage those who are not educated and not interested about racial psychology from reading it.
Sylvia Hurtado, et al. "Considering The Impact Of Racial Stigmas And Science Identity: Persistence Among Biomedical And Behavioral Science Aspirants." Journal Of Higher Education 82.5 (2011): 564-596. Academic Search Premier. Web. 6 Apr. 2012.
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