Mentoring Dilemmas

Murrell, Audrey J.; Crosby, Faye J.; Ely, Robin J.

This book reveals a long-neglected aspect of the mentoring process that has proven so important in all areas of professional life: mentoring across cultural, racial, and gender lines. For all those in education who have mentored or been mentored.

Contents: S. Wellington, Foreword. Preface. Part I:Theoretical Perspectives.F.J. Crosby, The Developing Literature on Developmental Relationships. S.R. Bowman, M.E. Kite, N.R. Branscombe, S. Williams, Developmental Relationships of Black Americans in the Academy. S. Goto, Asian Americans and Developmental Relationships. R.M. O'Neill, S. Horton, F.J. Crosby, Gender Issues in Developmental Relationships. Part II:Empirical Perspectives.S. Blake, At the Crossroads of Race and Gender: Lessons From the Mentoring Experiences of Professional Black Women. G.M. McGuire, Do Race and Sex Affect Employees' Access to and Help From Mentors? Insights From the Study of a Large Corporation. D.E. Gibson, D.I. Cordova, Women's and Men's Role Models: The Importance of Exemplars. D. Kirby, J.S. Jackson, Mitigating Perceptions of Racism: The Importance of Work Group Composition and Supervisor's Race. D.A. Thomas, Beyond the Simple Demography--Power Hypothesis: How Blacks in Power Influence White-Mentor--Black-Protégé Developmental Relationships. Part III:Experiential Perspectives.E. McCambley, Testing Theory by Practice. S.K. Hoyt, Mentoring With Class: Connections Between Social Class and Developmental Relationships in the Academy. A.J. Murrell, S.S. Tangri, Mentoring at the Margin. Part IV:Conclusions.B.R. Ragins, Where Do We Go From Here, and How Do We Get There? Methodological Issues in Conducting Research on Diversity and Mentoring Relationships.