Modeling Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender

Practices to Cultivate the Next Generation of Diverse Faculty

Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Juan Carlos González, Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Juan Carlos González

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781579224882
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000977813
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

While mentorship has been shown to be critical in helping graduate students persist and complete their studies, and enter upon and succeed in their academic careers, the under-representation of faculty of color and women in higher education greatly reduces the opportunities for graduate students from these selfsame groups to find mentors of their race, ethnicity or gender.Recognizing that mentoring across gender, race and ethnicity inserts levels of complexity to this important process, this book both fills a major gap in the literature and provides an in-depth look at successful mentorships between senior white and under-represented scholars and emerging women scholars and scholars of color. Following a comprehensive review of the literature, this book presents chapters written by scholars who share in-depth descriptions of their cross-gender and/or cross-race/ethnicity mentoring relationships. Each article is co-authored by mentors who are established senior scholars and their former protégés with whom they have continuing collegial relationships. Their descriptions provide rich insights into the importance of these relationships, and for developing the academic pipeline for women scholars and scholars of color. Drawing on a comparative analysis of the literature and of the narrative chapters, the editors conclude by identifying the key characteristics and pathways for developing successful mentoring relationships across race, ethnicity or gender, and by offering recommendations for institutional policy and individual mentoring practice. For administrators and faculty concerned about diversity in graduate programs and academic departments, they offer clear models of how to nurture the productive scholars and teachers needed for tomorrow's demographic of students; for under-represented students, they offer compelling narratives about the rewards and challenges of good mentorship to inform their expectations and the relationships they will develop as protégés.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1. What Does the Literature Tell Us About Mentoring across Race/Ethnicity and Gender?
• 2. Building Cross-Gender Mentorships in Academe: A Chicano–Latina Filipina Relationship Built on Common Scholarly Commitments
• 3. Socialization in Academe: Reflections on Mentoring by a Latina Filipina Mentor and an African American Male Protégé
• 4. Breaking through Racial and Gender Barriers: Reflections on Dissertation Mentorship and Peer Support
• 5. Latina Faculty and Latino Male Student Mentorship Processes: Aprendiendo y Compartiendo Juntos
• 6. A Critical Race Journey of Mentoring
• 7. Cross-Gender Mentoring from a Caribbean Perspective
• 8. Autoethnography, Insider Testimonios, Common Sense Racism, and the Politics of Cross-Gender Mentoring
• 9. Analysis of the Mentor–ProtéGé Narratives: Reflecting the Literature
• 10. Analysis of the Mentor–Protégé Narratives: Contributing to the Literature and Emerging Mentoring Model for Practice
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Index