Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner

Juan Carlos González

While mentorship has been shown to be critical in helping graduate students persist and complete their studies, and enter upon and succeed in their academic careers, the under-representation of faculty of color and women in higher education greatly reduces the opportunities for graduate students from these selfsame groups to find mentors of their race, ethnicity or gender. Recognizing that mentoring across gender, race and ethnicity inserts levels of complexity to this important process, this book both fills a major gap in the literature and provides an in-depth look at successful mentorships between senior white and under-represented scholars and emerging women scholars and scholars of color. Following a comprehensive review of the literature, this book presents chapters written by scholars who share in-depth descriptions of their cross-gender and/or cross-race/ethnicity mentoring relationships. Each article is co-authored by mentors who are established senior scholars and their former protégés with whom they have continuing collegial relationships. Their descriptions provide rich insights into the importance of these relationships, and for developing the academic pipeline for women scholars and scholars of color. Drawing on a comparative analysis of the literature and of the narrative chapters, the editors conclude by identifying the key characteristics and pathways for developing successful mentoring relationships across race, ethnicity or gender, and by offering recommendations for institutional policy and individual mentoring practice. For administrators and faculty concerned about diversity in graduate programs and academic departments, they offer clear models of how to nurture the productive scholars and teachers needed for tomorrow’s demographic of students; for under-represented students, they offer compelling narratives about the rewards and challenges of good mentorship to inform their expectations and the relationships they will develop as protégés.

Practices to Cultivate the Next Generation of Diverse Faculty

Modeling Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender

Hay que leer con atención el libro y uno se va dando cuenta, poco a poco, de que se trata de un texto de secretos vasos comunicantes, de caprichos muy personales, donde el cine es un pretexto para hablar de historia, de filosofía, de trivia, de dudas o incluso de modelos de construcción dramática. He leído estas Imágenes escritas de un soplo y uno se va dando cuenta de que los textos no sólo fueron concebidos para publicaciones aisladas. Hay textos que no existen sino en este Libro. Ellos sirven de tejido interno para que el volumen haya sido levantado casi como una novela cinéfila, en la cual hay un planteamiento a través de la prehistoria (los Lumiere, Mélies, Caligari, Stroheim, el slapstick, Murnau, Dreyer ... ), se abre el horizonte con los que atravesaron del mudo al sonoro (Von Sternberg, Lang, Renoir, Ford .. .), para luego entrar en el territorio de los conflictos (Welles, Hawks, Powell, Reed, Donen, De Sica, en fin, Ozu, Mann, Ray ... ), llegar a los mejores clímax del cinéma d\'auteur (Truffaut, Fellini, Wilder, Visconti, Bergman ... ) hasta cabalgar en desenlaces abiertos en los que González mezcla a Coppola con Víctor Erice y concluye, como buen crítico de la ciudad de Medellín, con Wim Wenders.

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