Table of Contents

Introduction With the help of good white men Women and mathematics in the nineteenth century The Twentieth century: Mathematics and marriage African American mathematicians from the eighteenth through the twentieth century Latino mathematicians Reawakening: The Association for Women in Mathematics Skits tell what's happening around 1990 Women in mathematics now (2004) Minorities in mathematics now (2004) Conclusions Appendix to Chapter 5: The careers of 75 African American mathematicians of New Jersey in mid-1985.

About the Author

Patricia Clark, author of North of Wondering, won the first book award from Women in Literature Press. She is also the co-editor of Worlds in Our Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers. At present, she teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University, where she is Professor in the Department of Writing and the university's poet-in-residence.