Who We Are

• Blaine Harper, Graduate Student Member
• Da’Mere Wilson, Graduate Student Member
• Jack Morgan Mizell, Graduate Student Member
• Alana Muller, Graduate Student Member

Our Goals

The climate of academia and the classroom environment are core components of the university experience that have the power to influence student perceptions and academic outcomes positively or negatively. The mission of the book review program is to foster an atmosphere in which students, teaching assistants, and course instructors alike see themselves thoughtfully represented in course materials and as constructors of knowledge. To this end, the book review program will create a publicly-available book review resource for education, increase department awareness and understanding of a range of diversity-related topics, and make recommendations for improvements to psychology department coursework. Our impact is directed principally within our department, but also carries the hope of creating a resource that benefits the University of Arizona, other academic institutions, and the public.

Book Reviews

2020

• November 2020 Book Review: Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For- Profit Colleges in the New Economy
• September 2020 Book Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• April 2020 Book Review (3-minute read): Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
• March 2020 Book Review (5-minute read): The Health Gap
• February 2020 Book Review (3-minute read): Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
• January 2020 Book Review (2-minute read) - Thick: And Other Essays

2019

• December 2019 (2-minute read) - Becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution
• November 2019 (7-minute read) - Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities
• October 2019 (2-minute read) - Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure by Patricia Matthew
• September 2019 (2-minute read) - Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire