Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships

Critical Examinations

Keisha Edwards Tassie, Sonja M. Brown Givens

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216293934
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter One: Relationships as Sites for Advancement
• Chapter Two: Cocreating Professional Development Opportunities for Moving from “Pet” to Peer
• Chapter Three: “It Takes a Village to Raise a Professor”
• Chapter Four: A Story of Mentoring
• Chapter Five: Women of Color and Mentoring
• Chapter Six: Mentoring Our Own
• Chapter Seven: Beyond Student and Teacher
• Chapter Eight: Disregarding Negative Statements about the Failures of Race–Gender Mentoring Pairings
• Chapter Nine: Mentors and Sister-Friends
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors