Research Catalog

Title

Sankofa : African American perspectives on race and culture in US doctoral education / edited by Pamela Felder, Marco J. Barker, and Marybeth Gasman.

Publication

• Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Felder, Pamela Petrease
• Barker, Marco J., 1978-
• Gasman, Marybeth

Description

ix, 230 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Sankofa: African American Perspectives on Race and Culture in US Doctoral Education reexamines doctoral education through the lens of African American and black experiences. Drawing on the African Diasporic legacy of Sankofa and the notion that "it is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten," the editors and authors "go back" to address legacies of exclusion in higher education, and take care to center and honor the contributions of historically marginalized doctoral students past, present, and future. Whereas earlier studies focused largely on socialization, departmental norms, and statistical portraits of doctoral degree attachment, Sankofa illuminates the ways African American students encounter, navigate, and make sense of their doctoral experiences and especially the impact of race and culture on those experiences. Individual chapters look at STEM programs, the intersections of race and gender, the role of HBCUs, and students' relationships with faculty and advisors. Amid growing diversity across programs and institutions, Sankofa provides a critical model for applying culturally based frameworks in educational research, as well as practical strategies for better understanding and responding to the needs of students of color in predominantly white contexts"--

Subject

• Doctoral students > African Americans > Social conditions
• Doctoral students > African Americans > Attitudes
• African Americans > Education (Graduate)
• Universities and colleges > United States > Graduate work
• African American universities and colleges
• African Americans > Race identity
• Race relations
• Universities and colleges > Graduate work
• United States > Race relations
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Understanding race, culture, and the doctorate / Pamela Felder -- Programmatic efforts and the black doctoral experience in education : a literature review / Pamela Felder, Girvin Liggans, Fanuel Chirombo, and Sydney Freeman, Jr. -- Resistance narratives : counterstories of two black women doctoral students / Varaxy Yi and Delma Ramos -- Demystifying the monolithic black male mystique : advancing a research agenda on black men in engineering graduate programs / Brian A. Burt -- Being one of few : examining black biomedical PhDs' training experiences and career development through a campus racial climate lens / Kimberly A. Griffin, Kenneth D. Gibbs, Jr. and Shelvia English -- From firm foundations to where? : understanding the role of HBCUs in African American PhD student commitment / Pamela F. Felder and Carmen McCallum -- Rethinking engagement : examining the role of faculty-student interactions and black doctoral student success at HBCUs / Tiffany Fountaine Boykin -- Double consciousness : exploring black and doctoral student identity within cross-race advising relationships / Marco J. Barker and C. Ellen Washington.

Call Number

Sc E 21-285

ISBN

• 9781438477992
• 1438477996

LCCN

2019036173

OCLC

1142020400

Title

Sankofa : African American perspectives on race and culture in US doctoral education / edited by Pamela Felder, Marco J. Barker, and Marybeth Gasman.

Publisher

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Felder, Pamela Petrease, editor.

Barker, Marco J., 1978- editor.

Gasman, Marybeth, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-285