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Gail Y. Okawa. Diving for Pearls: Mentoring as Cultural and Activist Practice among Academics of Color.

Okawa, Gail Y. "Diving for Pearls: Mentoring as Cultural and Activist Practice among Academics of Color." CCC. 53.3 (2002): 507-532.

Abstract:

For senior scholars of color like Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva, mentoring is more than an academic exercise. From them and their prot�g�s, we may gain some understanding of the complexities and costs of building a multiethnic/multiracial professoriate in our discipline.

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