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Black women navigating the doctoral journey : student peer support, mentorship, and success in the academy / edited by Sharon Fries-Britt and Bridget Turner Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doctoral students--African Americans.
- Doctoral students.
- African American women--Education (Graduate).
- African American women.
- African American women--Education (Higher).
- Mentoring in education--United States.
- Mentoring in education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, [2024]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey: Student Peer Support, Mentorship, and Success in the Academy
- Preface: Bridget Turner Kelly and Sharon Fries-Britt
- Section I: A Case for Mentoring
- 1 Multigenerational Reflections on the Importance of Peer Mentoring in the PhD Journey
- 2 Retaining Each Other: The Power of Community for African American Women Undergraduates in STEM
- Section II: Intersectional Peer Mentoring
- 3 Omittance ≠ Inclusion: Extending the Narrative of Guided Wayfinding Through Higher Education for Young Black Queer Femmes in Secondary Education
- 4 Mek Yaad within Academia: Afro-Caribbean Women Finding Belonging in the Academy
- Section III: Peer Mentoring During a Global Pandemic
- 5 Strategies for Providing Grace and Space on the Journey of Multidimensional Sisterhood in the Academy
- 6 Finding Spaces to Breathe in the Academy: How Black Women Build Sustaining Communities to Fortify Success
- 7 "If it Mattered to them, it Mattered to Me": How Friendship Shaped Three Black Women's Doctoral Experience During a Pandemic and Racial Injustice
- Section IV: Centering Healing in Peer Mentoring
- 8 Cultivating a Conscious Cohort: Sisterhood as a Site of Institutional Change
- 9 "Retention Ain't Enough": The Spiritually Guided and Intersectional Narratives of Four Black Women Doctoral Students
- 10 There is Only So Much a Peer Can Do!
- About the Book Editors
- About Book Chapter Contributors.
- Notes:
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fries-Britt, Sharon Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey
- ISBN:
- 9781000935141
- 1000935140
- 9781003394648
- 1003394647
- 9781000935134
- 1000935132
- OCLC:
- 1393205423
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