Mentoring While Black: A Testimony
After briefly exploring my experiences with being mentored, this short essay highlights how I strive to manage the politics of graduate student mentoring. Such politics involve managing the racial implications of faculty competition to attract graduate students and implementing mentoring strategies...
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University of Bologna
2025-01-01
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| description | After briefly exploring my experiences with being mentored, this short essay highlights how I strive to manage the politics of graduate student mentoring. Such politics involve managing the racial implications of faculty competition to attract graduate students and implementing mentoring strategies that have been uniquely informed by my own racial experiences within and outside of academia. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fc6ebac2a0204e4d890301e287ee976e2025-01-23T13:04:35ZengUniversity of BolognaSociologica1971-88532025-01-01183495610.6092/issn.1971-8853/2061918991Mentoring While Black: A TestimonyAlford A. Young, Jr.0https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5654-7731Departments of Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of MichiganAfter briefly exploring my experiences with being mentored, this short essay highlights how I strive to manage the politics of graduate student mentoring. Such politics involve managing the racial implications of faculty competition to attract graduate students and implementing mentoring strategies that have been uniquely informed by my own racial experiences within and outside of academia.https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/20619raceme-searchgraduate writing successacademic writingmentoring |
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