Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey

Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey

Student Peer Support, Mentorship, and Success in the Academy

Sociology

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.

Fries-Britt, Sharon (editor) cc
Turner Kelly, Bridget (editor)

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87583

https://taylorandfrancis.com/

Taylor & Francis

2024

Khoirul Falah

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

PDF

English

Textbooks

DOI
10.4324/9781003394648
ISBN
9781003394648