{"id":235,"date":"2024-05-02T04:12:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/?page_id=235"},"modified":"2024-05-02T04:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:12:25","slug":"sa-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/sa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"SA #3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The article I chose is \u201c<strong>Seeding an anti-racist culture at Scotland\u2019s Botanical Gardens<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Botanical gardens are re-examining their collections\u2019 colonial roots \u2014 botanists of color Say keep going.\u201d <\/strong>This relates to my group\u2019s topic and issues the most. The article refers to the minority ethnic backgrounds as \u201chidden figures\u201d as their contributions of specimens to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh have gone unrecunized. For the past 350 years, white European explorers have received praise for building the archives, but it\u2019s time for a change. In the last two years, progress has been made to acknowledge the achievements of people who were not white Europeans, and to make the gardens a more welcoming place for visitors and employees. In March, the institution released a racial justice report, informing an action plan to &#8220;embed&#8221; racial-justice work as a &#8220;core aspect&#8221; of the organization. This extends to its research and training efforts, with the study recommending specific PhD grants for students from underrepresented backgrounds and supporting more equal connections with researchers worldwide. Beyond the efforts being made at specific gardens, there is a need for global scientific collaboration. Makunga co-founded Black Botanists Week, a global event highlighting Black and Indigenous botanists and plant scientists. One of the community&#8217;s discussions, she says, is whether to rename plants whose scientific names insult Indigenous people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nordling, Linda. \u201cSeeding an Anti-racist Culture at Scotland\u2019s Botanical Gardens.\u201d <em>Nature<\/em>, Nov. 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-03797-z\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-03797-z<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article I chose is \u201cSeeding an anti-racist culture at Scotland\u2019s Botanical Gardens Botanical gardens are re-examining their collections\u2019 colonial roots \u2014 botanists of color Say keep going.\u201d This relates to my group\u2019s topic and issues the most. The article refers to the minority ethnic backgrounds as \u201chidden figures\u201d as their contributions of specimens to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/priscilla-kincanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}