Help a Sista Out: Black Women Doctoral Students' Use of Peer Mentorship as an Act of Resistance

Autor/inn/en	Minnett, Jari L.; James-Gallaway, ArCasia D.; Owens, Devean R.
Titel	Help a Sista Out: Black Women Doctoral Students' Use of Peer Mentorship as an Act of Resistance
Quelle	In: Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 31 (2019) 2, S.210-238 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1056-3997
Schlagwörter	African American Students; Doctoral Students; Females; Peer Relationship; Mentors; Whites; Institutional Characteristics; Teacher Student Relationship; Socialization; Doctoral Programs; Feminism; Ethnography; Scholarship; Coping; Self Concept; Friendship; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Doktorand; Doktorandin; Weibliches Geschlecht; Peer-Beziehungen; White; Weißer; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Feminismus; Ethnografie; Scholarships; Stipendium; Bewältigung; Selbstkonzept; Freundschaft; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Many Black women doctoral students entering and persisting through graduate study lack the affirmation, community, and resources necessary to confidently assert themselves as members of the academy. These barriers make it especially difficult for Black women to effectively navigate doctoral programs that privilege and normalize elite white male experiences. Using Black feminism as the conceptual lens, this manuscript presents a burgeoning peer mentorship framework of Black women doctoral students attending a predominantly white institution through a collective Black feminist autoethnography. This model highlights our strategy for not only surviving the academy, but also resisting manifestations of white heteropatriarchal violence within academia. In contrast to more common and formal faculty-student mentorship models, we engage an emergent, horizontal peer mentorship framework, comprised of three tenets: radical coping, communal sista scholarship, and the cultivation of an authentic holistic self. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01