The Doctorate in Black and White: Exploring the Engagement of Black Doctoral Students in Cross Race Advising Relationships with White Faculty

Introduction In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois published his book, The Souls of Black Folk, which he wrote: The present social separation and acute race-sensitiveness must eventually yield to the influences of culture, as the South grows civilized, is clear. But such transformation calls for singular wisdom and patience. If, while the healing of this vast sore is progressing, the races are to live for many years side by side, united in economic effort,...