Review of Disrupting White Noise: Challenging Beliefs About Race on Campus, by Zak Foste and Lauren N. Irwin

Jaran Smith (he/him) is a graduate student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at the University of Connecticut. As an Educational Program Assistant in the Department of Animal Science, he supports academic programming, student success initiatives, and departmental operations. His research interests focus on whiteness in higher education, with particular attention to how organizational cultures, professional socialization, and institutional norms reproduce whiteness. He is especially interested in the organizational conditions that sustain–or disrupt–anti-racist learning and practice.