Why So Much Blackness?: Race in the Dissertation Topics and Research of Black Male Doctoral Students

Abstract

This article explores the perspectives of Black male doctoral students around selecting dissertation and research topics. In addition to the challenges that all doctoral students face when selecting a dissertation topic, Black male doctoral students also have had to come to terms with how much or how little race matters in their research agendas. In doing so, the authors find that they possess a unique academic currency that enables them to diversify the literature and connects the needs of the community to the resources of the university.