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The Professional Educator
ISSN 0196-786X · Truman Pierce Institute · 15 articles in the index
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A Review of Studying Latinx/a/o Students in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Concepts, Theory, and Methodologies
In this book review, I detail unique interventions, gaps, and insights the authors of the text, Studying Latinx/a/o Students in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Concepts, Theory, and Methodologies, collectively make for the study of Latinx/a/o students in higher education, such as the…
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Disposable Black excellence: A book review of Sekile M. Nzinga’s Lean semesters: How Higher Education Reproduces Inequity
Although Black women’s graduate degree attainment has nearly doubled since 2000, Sekile M. Nzinga’s Lean Semesters provides a complex picture into this social reality in academia, with the central argument that American higher education operates as a hyper-producer of inequity for marginalized…
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Review of HOOD Feminism: Notes from The Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
In Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall critiques mainstream feminism arguing that the feminist movement does not focus on the basic needs of all women. Kendall defines feminism as “the work that you do, and the people you do it for who matter more than anything else” (Kendall, 2020, p.xiii). She focuses…
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On Decolonizing US Education: Lessons from the Caribbean and South Africa
US education is hardly divorced from systemic societal inequalities. Utilizing the cases of the Englishspeaking Caribbean and post-apartheid South Africa decolonization efforts, we engage the settler coin concept to interrogate the popular notion that we can achieve systemic change in the US…
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Review of Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education by Huber, L. & Muñoz, S.
In Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education, Huber and Muz provide a critical analysis of the many ways that racist nativism is embedded into educational policy and practice across the P-20 spectrum. The authors included in this edited volume use varying approaches to educational…
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Review of Love’s We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
This review of Bettina Love’s (2019) We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom places the book within the context of the school/prison nexus and the contemporary American prison abolition movement. It offers a summary of Love’s main arguments with…
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The Grammar of School Discipline: A Review of the Four Rs
This review critiques Hannah Carson Baggett and Carey E. Andrzejewski’s The Grammar of School Discipline. To examine school discipline and to specifically highlight anti-Black racism in public schools in the state of Alabama, the authors detailed and criticized the three Rs of school discipline…
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Why Opportunity Isn’t Enough: Restrictive v. Expansive Views of Equality, Texas Top Ten Percent Policy, and Race Liberalism
This conceptual paper analyzes persistent challenges to racially diversify higher education in Texas, paying special attention to trends at this Southern state’s most selective flagship—University of Texas at Austin. We apply critical race theorist Kimberlè Crenshaw’s frame of race liberalism and…
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Review of Negotiating Disability
This book review critiques Negotiating Disability: Disclosure and Higher Education edited by Stepahnie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman, and James M. Moore. The editors of this anthology of essays and studies intended to provide a starting point to explore how disability is “named, identified…
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Review of Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellion: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education
Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education brings together a collection of inquiries that foreground the framework of “plantation politics” to highlight the pervasive nature of anti-Black racism in higher education spaces. This…
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“Leading from the middle”: Exploring stories of women working for change in PK-12 Schools