Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships

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.

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