Disparity in Black PhD recipients

[hoodheronova]

PhD is one of he worst career choices. You don't get paid shyt and your stuck working as someone's slave for a decade. Why the fuk would you wanna do that shyt

 

[EndDomination]

My father has his PhD but he's Nigerian. It was fairly common back then to acquire one at least a masters.

With the inclining price of a 4 year degree, most people are checking out of university. Can't blame them

Most Nigerians I know have a grad degree or are working toward it, my friend is Nigerian and both of his parents are doctors, as are his two older siblings, and he's applying for med school now. His brother is the Black Sheep of the family, and is probably going to go into law.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Black people are underrepresented in all graduate programs, including Law, Medicine, Accounting, MBAs and MLAs.
It may help to read the full article, a lot of the concentrations are in specialised jobs, and even in things like Computer Science, and Engineering the numbers are woefully low, especially for Black men.

Okay, I never said that we were not; however the examples that were shown in the article weren't needed. My idea was that when us black people go to grad school or higher, it's in more lucrative fields like medicine, law or business. Should there be more representation amongst African Americans in Stem, Law and Business? Obviously the answer is yes; however the fields that were mentioned maybe just not be important or lucrative enough. Also I'm pretty sure Dr. Chanda Prescott, has a PHD in Astrophysics from MIT. I have to go check; but I'm pretty sure I read a article about her.

 

[sportscribe]

This is interesting, as I personally know black people (granted they are Nigerians and not AA) with PhD's in chemistry, computer science,mathematics, aviation and all sorts of engineering fields. Granted these are not what you would term 'natural sciences' other than chemistry, but there is still a black presence in STEM-related fields.

Also, this article is from 2004 OP...you have anything more recent?

 

[Anno Domini]

"Not one of these 2,100 doctoral degrees went to an African American."

Damn... I was guess something like atleast 100 when I was reading this shyt. But not a single one???

 

[newworldafro]

 

[Richard Wright]

If youre smart enough to do a STEM phd you can get a 6 figure job straight out of college with just a bs.

 

[EndDomination]

Okay, I never said that we were not; however the examples that were shown in the article weren't needed. My idea was that when us black people go to grad school or higher, it's in more lucrative fields like medicine, law or business. Should there be more representation amongst African Americans in Stem, Law and Business? Obviously the answer is yes; however the fields that were mentioned maybe just not be important or lucrative enough. Also I'm pretty sure Dr. Chanda Prescott, has a PHD in Astrophysics from MIT. I have to go check; but I'm pretty sure I read a article about her.

Indeed she does, by far one of my favourite academics in the world
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It just hurts because a lot of these fields are foundational, and hopefully more Black graduates would mean more Black representation in international trainings (being a Black astrophysicist teaching in Haiti is probably a rarity).
Unfortunately, our Black representation in medical school and law school are also pretty low (not helped by the low stats that many of the Black students come in with).