As more students of color continue to make up our nationâs schools, finding ways to address their academic and cultural ways knowing become important issues. This book explores these intersections, by covering a variety of topics related to race, social class, and gender, all within a multiyear study of a mentoring program that is situated within U.S. K-12 schools. Furthermore, the role of power is central to the analyses as the contributors examine questions, tensions, and posit overall critical takes on mentoring. Finally, suggestions for designing critical and holistic programming are provided.
Contributors are: Shanyce L. Campbell, Juan F. Carrillo, Tim Conder, Dana Griffin, Alison LaGarry, George Noblit, Danielle Parker Moore, Esmeralda Rodriguez, and Amy Senta.
Juan F. Carrillo, PhD (2010), Arizona State University, is an Associate Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. His work looks at the role of agency in historically marginalized communities, with a particular focus on Latinx students. He is the author of Barrio Nerds: Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle (Sense Publishers, 2016).
Danielle Parker Moore, PhD (2015), Wake Forest University, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at WFU. Her work is focused on black mothers experiences in out of school programs and CDF Freedom Schools.
Tim Condor, PhD (2018), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UNCâChapel Hill. His work is focused on Identity Formation of Christian Social Justice Activists in North Carolinaâs Moral Movement.
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âJuan F. Carrillo and Tim Conder
1 Capitalizing on Achievement: A Critical Examination of School-Based Mentoring Programs and Student Achievement
âShanyce L. Campbell
2 Someone Fabulous Like Me: White Mentorsâ Representations of Moralities and Possibilities for a White Complicity Pedagogy for Mentoring
âAmy Senta and Danielle Parker Moore
3 Class Crossings: Mentoring, Stratification and Mobility
âGeorge Noblit, Danielle Parker Moore and Amy Senta
4 âI Donât Think Itâs Changed Me, Itâs Helped Mold Meâ: The Agency of Students of Color in a Whitestream Mentoring Organization
âTim Conder and Alison LaGarry
5 Inculcando Confianza: Towards Exploring the Possibilities in the Mentoring of Latina Youth
âEsmeralda Rodriguez
6 Examining the Mentoring Discourse Regarding the Parenting Practices of Black, Female-Led Families
âDana Griffin
7 Final Thoughts
âJuan F. Carrillo
Readership consists of mentoring practitioners, mentoring organizations/institutions, academic libraries, public libraries, graduate students, undergraduate students.