Learning to read each other: Black female graduate students share their experiences at a White Research I institution

Urban Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 181-199

  Williams, Meca R ^a   Brewley, Denise N ^a   Reed, R Judith ^a   White, Dorothy Y ^a   Davis Haley, Rachel T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Black graduate experience; Mentoring Black female graduate students

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644557406     PISSN: 00420972     EISSN: 15731960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11256-005-0008-0     Document Type: Article

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