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ERIC Number: EJ1452794
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-2637-9112
EISSN: EISSN-2637-9120
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Building Trust, Fostering Agency, Sharing Power: Interracial Feminist Co-Mentoring as a Strategy for Dismantling White Supremacy in Higher Education
Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, v17 n4 p334-356 2024
Despite institutional claims to value increased racial diversity in higher education, Black women in faculty roles perpetually navigate oppressive cultures across all institutional types. The ability to build and foster mutually beneficial interracial mentoring relationships is vitally important to move beyond performative diversity and build truly inclusive organizations. In this project, we sought to interrogate our own interracial feminist co-mentoring relationship to identify guiding principles for others engaged in these types of relationships. As a Black woman and a white woman, we employed duoethnography to analyze the realities of our interracial mentoring relationship and to develop a conceptual framework of interracial feminist co-mentoring. This study emphasized the transformative opportunities that can occur through experiences of social exchange and reciprocity within interracial feminist co-mentoring relationships. We argue for critical evaluation of existing mentorship models to include (a) a recognition of the historical and contemporary factors that inhibit Black women's ability to build and foster relationships with white women and (b) explicit ways white women can foster trust within interracial co-mentorships that facilitate true agency and shared power. Through this intentional exploration of our relationship, we make space for true divestment in internalized white supremacy for both Black and white women and movement toward dismantling white supremacy culture in mentoring relationships throughout higher education.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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