Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships: Critical Examinations

by Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui (Contribution by), Bernadette Marie Calafell (Contribution by), Tiffany A. Flowers (Contribution by), Sonja M. Brown Givens (Contribution by), Cerise L. Glenn (Contribution by)

Overview

Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships explores and critically examines the opportunities and challenges presented in mentoring relationships involving women of color. While all mentoring relationships are unique to the individuals involved in them, this book highlights the roles of race, class, and gender-oriented constructions in the establishment, maintenance, and dissolution of specific mentoring relationships in which women of color are engaged. This edited collection argues that traditional notions of mentoring fail to account for intersectionality and power dynamics that can have profound effects on mentoring practices, and that institutional “best practices” for mentoring do little to address the impact of constructions of “otherness” on the success (or failure) of mentoring relationships involving women of color.. Recommended for scholars of communication studies, gender studies, race studies, and for scholars pursuing a career in academia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498541060
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/18/2016
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Keisha Edwards Tassie is associate professor of communication at Morehouse College.

Sonja M. Brown Givens is associate vice president for academic affairs at Medaille College.

Table of Contents

Preface
Keisha Edwards Tassie
Chapter 1: Relationships as Sites for Advancement: How African American Female Leaders Successfully Navigate Mentoring in the Workplace
Creshema R. Murray
Chapter 2: Co-Creating Professional Development Opportunities for Moving from “Pet” to Peer: Examining Mentoring Experiences of African American Female Graduate Students Aspiring to Become Tenure-Track Professors
Cerise L. Glenn
Chapter 3: “It Takes a Village to Raise a Professor”: Being Mentored and Mentoring from a Marginalized Space
Tina M. Harris
Chapter 4: A Story of Mentoring: From Praxis to Theory
Fatima Chrifi Alaoui & Bernadette M. Calafell
Chapter 5: Women of Color and Mentoring: Fictional Case Portraits of a Failed Mentoring Framework
Tiffany A. Flowers
Chapter 6: Mentoring Our Own: African American Women in Engineering
Virginia Cook Tickles & Ezella McPherson
Chapter 7: Beyond Student and Teacher: Recollections and Reflections on, and Critique of, Cross Cultural Mentoring
Rehana Seepersad, Chaundra L. Whitehead, Keisha Hill-Grey, & Tonette S. Rocco
Chapter 8: Disregarding Negative Statements about the Failures of Race-Gender Mentoring Pairings: How a White Man Can Mentor a Young, Black Woman from a Bachelor’s Degree to a PhD
Tia C. M. Tyree
Chapter 9: Mentors and Sister-Friends: The Intersection of Race, Multiplicity, and Holism with Online Social Media
Catherine Knight Steele and Jenny Ungbha Korn
Conclusion
Sonja M. Brown Givens

Editorial Reviews

I was drawn in by this collection’s elaborations on co-mentorship, as well as both the protégé and mentor perspectives. Using many personal stories, Tassie and Brown Givens have well illustrated their philosophy of mentoring and mentoring strategies that are consistent with much of the past empirical research on mentoring. This is a worthwhile book to read!

Liu-Qin Yang

The stories, strategies, and advice in Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships: Critical Examinations provides critical and powerful insights into what it is like to be a woman of color in higher education. This text challenges us to rethink our own realities and consider how we will collaborate to create opportunities for women of color who are navigating their academic journey.

Brenda L. H. Marina

Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships is a stellar addition to the field of mentoring research. As a mentor program director, this collection provides a progressive framework for intercultural dynamics, which I intend to use for program change. I have looked a long time for a comprehensive book that digs more critically into issues of race, class, and identity in mentoring. This is a fantastic collection! The personal voices in this book offered insights that no other form of academic discourse could offer. My thanks to the writers for their vulnerability and teachings in these pages.

Dana Lundell