"Scientific Colonialism": Scientific Practice and Chicana/o Identity in an American Southwest Technopole
In November 1942, General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer chose the Manhattan Project "Site Y" at Los Alamos, New Mexico to construct the atomic bomb. Since that time, the laboratory has had a provocative sociocultural history with the local people. The "social contract" between the scientific laboratory and some neighboring communities display consistent patterns of racism under conditions described as "scientific colonialism."
Not only does science prevent these sociocultural injustices it contributes to them by the manner it is practiced--"big science" in a region of underrepresented people of color.
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