Abstract
In preparing to write this chapter, the mentor revealed to the mentee that due to the interesting content of our initial conversations, she had saved all the emails exchanged since early in the mentee’s junior faculty tenure. We thought these emails presented a unique opportunity to look back at the development of the mentoring relationship and to closely examine how we negotiated particularly difficult situations, what we refer to as critical moments. The title, for instance, comes from a set of emails partly about race. We realized early on that we could not pretend that race was not an issue, and so we made it part of the relationship. In talking about difference in the way that we approached our personal and professional lives, LouAnn (mentor) wrote, “What? You don’t think we’re twins separated at birth?" In a good-humored response intended to emphasize the difficulties that race adds to life in the academy, Steph (mentee) replied, “If we were twins separated at birth, I definitely got the short end of the stick.”.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Unlikely Allies in the Academy |
Subtitle of host publication | Women of Color and White Women in Conversation |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 149-159 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781136487828 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780415809030 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2012 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences