Building Mentorship Networks to Support Black Women : A Guide to Succeeding in the Academy

This new book in the Diverse Faculty in the Academy series pulls back the curtain on what Black women have done to mentor each other in higher education, provides advice for navigating unwelcoming campus environments, and explores avenues for institutions to support and foster minoritized women’s success in the academy. This new book in the Diverse Faculty in the Academy series pulls back the curtain on what Black women have done to mentor each other in higher education, provides advice for navigating unwelcoming campus environments, and explores avenues for institutions to support and foster minoritized women’s success in the academy. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Diverse Faculty in the Academy: Editor’s Letter 10 Foreword 12 Preface 17 Acknowledgments 26 SECTION I: Mentoring across Rank: Possibility Model Network 30 1 Still Retaining Each Other: Sustained Mentoring 34 2 A Critical Duoethnographic Account of Two Black Women Faculty Using Co-mentoring to Traverse Academic Life 48 3 Engaging in (De) liberate Dialogue: An Endarkened Feminist Trio-Ethnography among Black Teacher Educators 63 4 On Seeing Academics Who Are Black and Women: Understanding the Ontological We 78 SECTION II: Peer Mentoring Network: Standing in the Gap 94 5 Solidifying Our ‘Scholarhood’: Growing (up) Together as Black Women in the Academy 98 6 Contemporary Digital Mentoring Relationships and Community Building among Black Women Academics: “We All We Got” 113 7 How #CiteASista Leveraged Online Platforms to Center Black Womxn 129 SECTION III: Mentoring for Radical Self-Care: Centering Self in the Network 146 8 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Tenure Track Got Too Rough 150 9 Retained by the Grace of Sisterhood: The Making of an African Woman Academic in U.S. Academia 165 SECTION IV: Power of Community Mentoring: Expanded Sister Circle Network 180 10 #BlackWomxnHealing: An Intergenerational Space of Creative Communal Care for Round the Way Blackgirls in Academia 184 11 A Black Professor’s Resistance and Renewal: Journey Reflections with Letters to My Daughter and Educators Who Labor for Freedom and Liberation 198 12 Black Women Faculty–Doctoral Student Mentoring Relationships: SistUH Scholars 214 13 Pathways to Success for Black Women by Black Women 230 About the Book Editors 240 About the Chapter Contributors 242 Index 250 Building,Mentorship,Networks,to,Support,Black,Women;,A,Guide,to,Succeeding,in,the,Academy;,mentors;,Faculty;,faculty,experience;,mentorship;,tenure;,higher,education;,higher,education,administration;,social,justice;,higher,education,leadership;,power,and,privilege;,institutional,climate;,personal,identity;,equity;,diversity;,professional,development;,colleges,and,universities;,oppression;,bias;,postsecondary,education;,leadership;,Black,faculty;,faculty,of,color;,predominantly,white,institutions;,PWIs;,faculty,guide;,counter-narratives;,Academy;,narrative;,academia;,professoriate;,fitting,in;,identity;,multiple,marginality;,multiple,oppressions;,otherness;,scholarship;,mentoring Building Mentorship Networks to Support Black Women,A Guide to Succeeding in the Academy,mentors,Faculty,faculty experience,mentorship,tenure,higher education,higher education administration,social justice,higher education leadership,power and privilege,institutional climate,personal identity,equity,diversity,professional development,colleges and universities,oppression,bias,postsecondary education,leadership,Black faculty,faculty of color,predominantly white institutions,PWIs,faculty guide,counter-narratives,Academy,narrative,academia,professoriate,fitting in,identity,multiple marginality,multiple oppressions,otherness,scholarship,mentoring "This new book in the Diverse Faculty in the Academy series pulls back the curtain on what Black women have done to mentor each other in higher education, provides advice for navigating unwelcoming campus environments, and explores avenues for institutions to support and foster minoritized women's success in the academy. Chapter authors present critical approaches to advance equity and to achieve trust and transparency in the academy. Drawing on examples of mentoring between Black women students, faculty, and administrators in and outside of the academy from diverse institutional contexts, exploring the use of digital technologies, and framed by theoretical concepts from a range of disciplines, this important volume provides insights on mentoring that can be employed across all of higher education to support the success of Black women faculty. Full of actionable steps that institutional leaders can take to support the network of mentors it takes to be successful in the academy, this book is a must read for department and university leaders, faculty, and graduate students in Higher Education interested in supporting and fostering mentoring for those most vulnerable in the academic pathway for success"-- Provided by publisher. This new book in the __Diverse Faculty in the Academy__ series pulls back the curtain on what Black women have done to mentor each other in higher education, provides advice for navigating unwelcoming campus environments, and explores avenues for institutions to support and foster minoritized women’s success in the academy.