ABSTRACT
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.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|36 pages
A Case for Mentoring
chapter Chapter 1|15 pages
Multigenerational Reflections on the Importance of Peer Mentoring in the PhD Journey
chapter Chapter 2|17 pages
Retaining Each Other
part Section II|34 pages
Intersectional Peer Mentoring
chapter Chapter 3|17 pages
Omittance ≠ Inclusion
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
Mek Yaad within Academia
part Section III|49 pages
Peer Mentoring During a Global Pandemic
chapter Chapter 5|14 pages
Strategies for Providing Grace and Space on the Journey of Multidimensional Sisterhood in the Academy
chapter Chapter 6|15 pages
Finding Spaces to Breathe in the Academy
chapter Chapter 7|16 pages
“If it mattered to them, it mattered to me”
part Section IV|41 pages
Centering Healing in Peer Mentoring