Faculty of Color in Higher Education: Exploring the Intersections of Identity, Impostorship, and Internalized Racism

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 354-372

  Dancy, T Elon ^a   Jean Marie, Gaetane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

faculty; mentoring; professional development; race; racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911990867     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611267.2014.945736     Document Type: Article

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