Vision:
To assist Texas A&M’s mathematical community with embracing diversity and increasing awareness.
Mission:
We host monthly Diversity Book Club, Movie Nights, and a large event each semester (including panels, round table discussions, and more!). Check our events calendar!
Meeting dates and readings
Apr 17 2024: "It Seems like They Purposefully Try to Make as Many Kids Drop”: An Analysis of Logics and Mechanisms of Racial-Gendered Inequality in Introductory Mathematics Instruction
Mar 06 2024: Military Funding in Mathematics and Mathematics Beyond Secrecy and Surveillance
Dec 04 2023: Various Readings on Palestine
Nov 15 2023: How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3, and More (Chapters 1, 6, and 7)
Mar 28 2023: Anatomy of a Backlash: Sexuality and the "Cultural" War on Human Rights and Anti-Trans "Grooming" and "Social Contagion" Claims Explained
Feb 07 2023: The Role of Mathematics in Today's Movement for Racial Justice
Sep 29 2022: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Chapter 2)
Nov 30 2021: Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies
Oct 26 2021: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Part 2: Becoming)
Sep 28 2021: Requiem for a Dream AMS blog post
Aug 26 2021: Weapons of Math Destruction
Jun 24 2021: Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality (Chapter 1, Chapters 12-14)
Apr 22 2021: Of models and myths: Asian(Americans) in STEM and the neoliberal racial project
Mar 25 2021: Gender Bias 101 for Mathematicians and Gender Bias 102 for Mathematicians: Merit
Mar 04 2021: Beyond Banneker: Black Mathematicians and the Paths to Excellence
Nov 24 2020: Toward inclusive mathematics education: a metatheoretical reflection about countering ableism in mathematics standards and curriculum and Dis/Ability and Mathematics: Theorizing the Research Divide between Special Education and Mathematics
Oct 29 2020: Beyond the Gender Binary
Sep 24 2020: Whistling Vivaldi (Chapter 2 part 6, Chapter 3 part 4, Chapter 9 part 1, Chapter 11)
Aug 27 2020: Rehumanizing Mathematics
We recommend going through the current reading linked here before attending the corresponding meeting.
Ponyo
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 5:00 PM CDT
Gaza Fights for Freedom
Monday, February 12, 2024 5:00 PM CDT
Nimona
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:00 PM CDT
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 5:00 PM CDT
Paris is Burning
Tuesday, March 20, 2023 5:00 PM CDT
Judas and the Black Messiah
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 5:00 PM CDT
Wadjda
Friday, December 2, 2022 5:00 PM CDT
Milk
Friday, October 21, 2022 5:00 PM CDT
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Friday, February 18, 2022 7:00 PM CDT
In Whose Honor?
Friday, November 12, 2021 7:00 PM CDT
How to Survive a Plague
Friday, October 15, 2021 7:00 PM CDT
Stand and Deliver
Friday, September 17, 2021 7:00 PM CDT
Hidden Figures
Friday, March 26th, 2021 8:00 PM CDT
I am Not Your Negro
Friday, February 26th, 2021 8:00 PM CT
The Imitation Game
Thursday, November 12th, 2020 8:00 PM CT
Mentorship for Mathematicians
Thursday, November 11,2021 4:00 PM CDT
Registration Link
Poster
Mentorship for Mathematicians
Wednesday, March 31th,2021 4:00 PM CDT
Registration Link
Poster
How (and Why) to Write a Diversity Statement
Wednesday, October 7th,2020 4:00 PM CDT
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