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Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution

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Our non-Black colleagues must fight anti-Black racism and white supremacy within the academy to authentically promote Black excellence. Amplifying Black excellence in ecology and evolution is the antidote for white supremacy in the academy.

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Fig. 1: Recommendations for authentically amplifying Black scholars while abolishing white supremacy in ecology and evolution.

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  1. School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USA

    Christopher J. Schell

  2. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Cylita Guy

  3. Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Delia S. Shelton

  4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Shane C. Campbell-Staton

  5. Institute for Society and Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Shane C. Campbell-Staton

  6. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Briana A. Sealey

  7. Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA

    Danielle N. Lee

  8. Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Nyeema C. Harris

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Schell, C.J., Guy, C., Shelton, D.S. et al. Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 1285–1287 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1266-7

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