Modeling Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender

“Two of the most fundamental questions about mentoring are: (1) ‘How do we know that mentoring makes a difference? and, (2) What does effective mentoring look like or feel like?

This is a book that speaks to these questions and examines them through phenomenology – from the lens of those who enter, experience, and benefit directly from mentoring relationships. If you are a graduate student, faculty member, college or university administrator, and an aspiring academic, this book will speak to you!

There are books on mentoring and mentoring relationships, yet few that take a look at the relationship across gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as from other lenses and experiences such as what you will encounter here. This book has the potential to influence mentoring practice, processes, and policies by bringing issues that many of us still find uncomfortable talking about in academia – the micro and macro-aggressions associated with the experiences of women and faculty of color in higher education – into focus. We espouse that cultivating the next generation of academics of color is important and a reality for countless reasons; however; we often underestimate the impact an effective mentoring relationship can have on that generation. Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender is insightful and informative and can help us to experience mentoring relationships in deeper and impactful ways to bridge the gender, social, and cultural divide.”

Christine A. Stanley, Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity - , Texas A&M University

FOREWORD—Christine A. Stanley


PREFACE—Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner


1) WHAT DOES THE LITERATURE TELL US ABOUT MENTORING ACROSS RACE/ETHNICITY AND GENDER? —Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner and Juan Carlos González


2) BUILDING CROSS-GENDER MENTORSHIP IN ACADEME: A Chicano-Latina/Filipina Relationship Built on Common Scholarly Commitments—Juan Carlos González and Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner


3) SOCIALIZATION IN ACADEME: Reflections on Mentoring by a Latina-Filipina Mentor and an African American Male Protégé—J. Luke Wood and Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner


4) BREAKING THROUGH RACIAL AND GENDER BARRIERS: Reflections on Dissertation Mentorship and Peer Support —Edward P. St. John, O. Cleveland Hill, Ontario S. Wooden, and Penny A. Pasque


5) LATINA FACULTY AND LATINO MALE STUDENT MENTORSHIP PROCESSES: Aprendiendo y Compartiendo Juntos—Jeanett Castellanos and Mark A. Kamimura-Jiménez

6) A CRITICAL RACE JOURNEY OF MENTORING—Dimpal Jain and Daniel Solorzano


7) CROSS-GENDER MENTORING FROM A CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE—Christine A. Stanley and Dave A. Louis


8) AUTOETHNOGRAPHY/TESTIMONIO, COMMON SENSE RACISM, AND THE POLITICS OF CROSS-GENDER MENTORING—Elvia Ramirez and Alfredo Mirandé


9) ANALYSIS OF THE MENTOR-PROTÉGÉ NARRATIVES: Reflecting The Literature—Juan Carlos González and Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner


10) ANALYSIS OF THE MENTOR-PROTÉGÉ NARRATIVES: Contributing To The Literature and Emerging Mentoring Model for Practice—Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner and Juan Carlos González

ABOUT THE EDITORS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

INDEX

Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner

Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner is professor emerita for the doctorate in educational leadership program at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), and Lincoln professor emerita of Higher Education and Ethics at Arizona State University (ASU).

At CSUS, Turner served as interim dean for the College of Education. Prior to her appointment at ASU, she was Professor of Educational Policy & Administration at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where she co-founded the national Keeping our Faculties of Color Symposium. She is also past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Her research and teaching interests include faculty gender and racial/ethnic diversity, leadership and organizational change, and the use of qualitative methods for policy research. Her publications, particularly Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success (with Myers, Jr.), Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees, and Women of Color in Academe: Living with Multiple Marginality advanced the dialogue on faculty gender and racial/ethnic diversity among scholars and practitioners. Dr. Turner has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, and the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. She is one of the founding editorial advisory board members for the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education and the Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity, and Leadership. Her numerous recognitions include the University of California, Davis (UCD) School of Education Distinguished Alumna Award, Sacramento State’s University-Wide Faculty Award for Research and Creative Activity, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Council on Ethnic Participation Mildred Garcia Senior Scholar Award, and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Scholars of Color in Education Career Contribution Award. Dr. Turner currently serves on the UCD School of Education Dean’s Board of Advisors and was honored to present their 2018 graduation keynote address. (See: https://video.ucdavis.edu/media/2018+School+of+Education+Keynote+-+Carolyn+Turner+-+June+13%2C+2018/.... Turner received her undergraduate degree in History and her master’s degree in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis from the Stanford University School of Education.

Juan Carlos González

Juan Carlos González is an assistant professor at California State University, Fresno, in the Department of Educational Research and Administration. His research interests include educational policy and history, multicultural and Latino educational issues, and ethics and diversity in higher education. His teaching interests include visual ethnography, the education of Chicanas and Chicanos, critical theory in education, and qualitative research methods.