Mentoring While White

Bettie Ray Butler, Ph.D., is associate professor of urban education and the Director of the M.Ed. in Urban Education program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.Abiola Farinde-Wu, Ph.D., is assistant professor of urban education in the Department of Leadership in Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston.Melissa Winchell, Ed.D., is associate professor of secondary education and Chair of the Accelerated Post Baccalaureate Program at Bridgewater State University.

• DedicationsForewordChristine SleeterPart I. Mentoring and Lived ExperiencesChapter One: Beyond Reckless Mentoring: (Re) Imagining Cross-racial Mentor-Mentee RelationshipsAbiola Farinde-Wu, Melissa Winchell, and Bettie Ray ButlerPart II. Mentoring and Black College StudentsChapter Two: Faculty Mentoring Promotes Sense of Belonging for Black Students at White Colleges: Key Insights from Those Who Really KnowTerrell L. StrayhornChapter Three: Let’s Work: Identifying the Challenges and Opportunities for Mentoring Across DifferenceRichard J. Reddick, Delando L. Crooks, M. Yvonne Taylor, Tiffany N. Hughes, and Daniel E. BectonPart III. Mentoring and IntersectionalityChapter Four: Critical Race Mentoring: Theory into Practice for Supporting Black Males at Predominantly White InstitutionsHorace R. Hall and Troy HardenChapter Five: Exploring Mentoring and Faculty Interactions of Black Women Pursuing Doctoral DegreesMarjorie C. Shavers, Jamilyah Butler, Bettie Ray Butler, and Lisa R. Merri

As mentoring practices remain elusive yet essential dimensions of human learning and development across time and space, this book should be required reading for all of us committed to advancing humanizing, opportunity centered communities in education and beyond. During these complex, challenging, stressful, and nebulous times, the authors in this book stress the need for lateral learning in the journey and press toward wholeness. Centering – rather than shying away from – the role, salience, and intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and other identity markers, writers detail a remarkable range of insights about what it takes to understand and engage in mentoring relationships that push against the status quo. A seamless, conceptually connected set of chapters, this is a book for anyone in the fight with minoritized communities for justice and equity!