Mentoring and Love: An Open Letter

Abstract

This essay blends autobiographical performance, performative writing (Pollock, 1998), and theory, in letter form following in the tradition of Madison (1999) and Ono (1997), to argue for the examination of mentoring as a critical act that blends theory and practice. It offers mentoring as a site of embodied resistance and "homeplace" for faculty of color and the students of color they mentor that exists outside of the traditional confines of research, teaching, and service. This conception of the mentoring relationship is driven by a politics of love (see hooks, 2001; Oliver, 2001) that asks us to challenge our understandings of power and hierarchies in these relationships and academia in general.

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