| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm.) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey: Student Peer Support, Mentorship, and Success in the Academy -- Preface / Bridget Turner Kelly and Sharon Fries-Britt -- Section I. A Case for Mentoring -- Multigenerational Reflections on the Importance of Peer Mentoring in the PhD Journey -- Retaining Each Other: The Power of Community for African American Women Undergraduates in STEM -- Section II. Intersectional Peer Mentoring -- Omittance ≠ Inclusion: Extending the Narrative of Guided Wayfinding Through Higher Education for Young Black Queer Femmes in Secondary Education -- Mek Yaad within Academia: Afro-Caribbean Women Finding Belonging in the Academy -- Section III. Peer Mentoring During a Global Pandemic -- Strategies for Providing Grace and Space on the Journey of Multidimensional Sisterhood in the Academy -- Finding Spaces to Breathe in the Academy: How Black Women Build Sustaining Communities to Fortify Success -- "If it Mattered to them, it Mattered to Me": How Friendship Shaped Three Black Women's Doctoral Experience During a Pandemic and Racial Injustice -- Section IV. Centering Healing in Peer Mentoring -- Cultivating a Conscious Cohort: Sisterhood as a Site of Institutional Change -- "Retention Ain't Enough": The Spiritually Guided and Intersectional Narratives of Four Black Women Doctoral Students -- There is Only So Much a Peer Can Do! |
| Summary |
"With the increasing focus on the critical importance of mentoring in advancing Black women students from graduation to careers in academia, this book identifies and considers the peer mentoring contexts and conditions that support Black women student success in higher education. This edited collection focuses on Black women students primarily at the doctoral level and how they have retained each other through their educational journey, emphasizing how they navigated this season of educational changes given COVID and racial unrest. Chapters illuminate what minoritized women students have done to mentor each other to navigate unwelcome campus environments laden with identity-politics and other structural barriers. Shining a light on systemic structures in place that contribute to Black women's alienation in the academy, this book unpacks implications for interactions and engagement with faculty as advisors and mentors. An important resource for faculty and graduate students at colleges and universities, ultimately this work is critical to helping the academy fortify Black women's sense of belonging and connection early in their academic career and foster their success"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Doctoral students -- African Americans
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African American women -- Education (Graduate) -- United States
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African American women -- Education (Higher) -- United States
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Mentoring in education -- United States
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Peer teaching -- United States
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Sociological aspects
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Discrimination in higher education -- United States
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African American women -- Education (Higher)
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Discrimination in higher education.
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Mentoring in education.
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Peer teaching.
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Universities and colleges -- Sociological aspects.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fries-Britt, Sharon, 1959- editor.
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Kelly, Bridget Turner, 1973- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781000935134 |
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1000935132 |
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9781003394648 |
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1003394647 |
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