Explores the complex interplay of race and culture in the doctoral experiences of African American students.Sankofa 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 contributors go back to address legacies of exclusion in higher education and take care to center and honor the contributions of historically marginalized doctoral students. Whereas earlier studies focused largely on socialization departmental norms and statistical portraits of doctoral degree attachment this book 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.