Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Developing literature on developmental relationships / Faye J. Crosby -- Developmental relationships of Black Americans in the academy / Sharon R. Bowman ... [et al.] -- Asian Americans and developmental relationships / Sharon Goto -- Gender issues in developmental relationships / Regina M O'Neill, Sylvia Horton, and Faye J. Crosby -- At the crossroads of race and gender : lessons from the mentoring experiences of professional Black women / Stacy Blake -- Do race and sex affect employees' access to and help from mentors? Insights from the study of a large corporation / Gail M. McGuire -- Women's and men's role models : the importance of exemplars / Donald E. Gibson and Diana I. Cordova -- Mitigating perceptions of racism : the importance of work group composition and supervisor's race / Daria Kirby and James S. Jackson -- Beyond the simple demography-power hypothesis : how Blacks in power influence White-mentor-Black-protégé developmental relationships / David A. Thomas -- Testing theory by practice / Ellen McCambley -- Mentoring with class : connections between social class and developmental relationships in the academy / Sandra K. Hoyt -- Mentoring at the margin / Audrey J. Murrell and Sandra Schwartz Tangri -- Where do we go from here, and how do we get there? Methodological issues in conducting research on diversity and mentoring relationships / Belle Rose Ragins.