Mentoring Amid Intersectional Identities, Racialized Allies, and Gendered Accomplices

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

While recent critical educational mentoring research includes theoretical and empirical studies of women and women of color, the discourse is still permeated by racial and gender imbalances in scholarship and praxis. Yet, women and minoritized women educators have continuously guided change, reform and improvement in educational fields and ancillary communities of practice to overcome the challenges of institutionalized racism and sexism. We will present findings from two systematic literature reviews and one collaborative autoethnographic study, grounded by the conceptual frames of intersectionality, that examine different aspects of mentoring roles and practices. We interrogate agendas that have altered narratives, fostered hostility and fueled surges of overt and covert harassment, discrimination and marginalization in a myriad of social, educational and leadership contexts.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Mentorship and Mentoring Practices

Chair

• Dessynie Edwards, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Papers

• Mentoring Amid Intersectional Identities, Racialized Allies, and Gendered Accomplices - Dessynie Edwards, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Deena Khalil, Howard University; Karen Ramlackhan, University of South Florida; Marilyn Keller-Nicol, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

• Matters of Identity: Intersectional and Gendered Perspectives on Mentoring in Higher Education - Ann Cranston-Gingras, University of South Florida; Karen Ramlackhan, University of South Florida

• Validating Experiences in Black and White: From Gender Solidarity to Allies - Marilyn Keller-Nicol, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

• Black Female Superintendents: Intersectionality Inquiries and Gendered Mentorships - Dessynie Edwards, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Deena Khalil, Howard University