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Book SynopsisMentoring While White: Culturally Responsive Practices for Sustaining the Lives of Black College Students provides a provocative and illuminating account of the mentoring experiences of Black college and university students based on their racialized and marginalized identities. Bettie Ray Butler, Abiola Farinde-Wu, and Melissa Winchell bring together a diverse group of well-respected leading and emerging scholars to present new and compelling arguments pointing to what white faculty should do to reimagine mentoring that seeks to sustain the lives of Black students by way of intentionality, reciprocal love, and transformative practice. This timely and relevant text takes a solution-oriented approach in offering direct guidance, promising strategies, and key insights on how to effectively implement culturally responsive mentoring practices that aim to improve cross-racial mentor-mentee relationships and post-school outcomes for Black students in higher education. It provides clear and immediate recommendations that can inform and positively shape mentoring interactions with Black women, men, and queer undergraduate and graduate students using innovative models that draw upon critical media and antiracist frameworks. The book is a must-read for anyone who currently mentors or desires to mentor Black college and university students.
Table of ContentsDedications
Foreword
Christine Sleeter
Part I. Mentoring and Lived Experiences
Chapter One: Beyond Reckless Mentoring: (Re) Imagining Cross-racial Mentor-Mentee Relationships
Abiola Farinde-Wu, Melissa Winchell, and Bettie Ray Butler
Part II. Mentoring and Black College Students
Chapter Two: Faculty Mentoring Promotes Sense of Belonging for Black Students at White Colleges: Key Insights from Those Who Really Know
Terrell L. Strayhorn
Chapter Three: Let’s Work: Identifying the Challenges and Opportunities for Mentoring Across Difference
Richard J. Reddick, Delando L. Crooks, M. Yvonne Taylor, Tiffany N. Hughes, and Daniel E. Becton
Part III. Mentoring and Intersectionality
Chapter Four: Critical Race Mentoring: Theory into Practice for Supporting Black Males at Predominantly White Institutions
Horace R. Hall and Troy Harden
Chapter Five: Exploring Mentoring and Faculty Interactions of Black Women Pursuing Doctoral Degrees
Marjorie C. Shavers, Jamilyah Butler, Bettie Ray Butler, and Lisa R. Merriweather
Chapter Six: Don’t Let Them Break You Down: Mentoring Young Black Women in College
Torie Weiston-Serdan
Chapter Seven: The Rage of Whiteness and the Hinderance of Black Mentorship: A Critical Race Perspective
Cleveland Hayes and Issac M. Carter
Chapter Eight: Mentoring and Planning Transition for Black Students with Diverse Abilities in Postsecondary Education
Edwin Obilo Achola
Part IV. Anti-Racist Mentoring
Chapter Nine: Black Mentorship Against the Anti-Black Machinery of the University
Timothy J. Lensmire and Brian D. Lozenski
Chapter Ten: “I Just Really Wanted Them To See Me:” Mentoring Black Students on Days After Injustice
Alyssa Hadley Dunn
Part V. Mentoring and Social Media
Chapter Eleven: Mentoring and Social Media: Lessons Learned from R.A.C.E. Mentoring
Jemimah L. Young, Erinn F. Floyd, and Donna Y. Ford
Part VI. Mentoring In Practice
Chapter Twelve: Black Students Have the Last Word: How White Faculty Can Sustain Black Lives in the University
Mekiael Auguste, Herby B. Jolimeau, Christelle Lauture, and Melissa Winchell
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