The thing about being black in academia is that your imposter syndrome isn’t internal. People let you know in many different ways that they don’t think you belong, or minimize your accomplishments to a handout. There’s a thousand thinkpieces and forums on why black people don’t score as highly on tests and how that topples the idea of meritocracy, but precious little on the extra mentorship most of us do to keep up future generations, the unthanked recruiting labour, and the amount of energy lost on self-regulation we have to do to maintain collegiate relationships with our colleagues and patients. (This doesn’t even get into America’s disenfranchisement of African Americans, and academia’s weird loophole of recruiting first and second gen Africans like me instead of attempting to address historical wrongs but thassa whole other topic and y’all ain’t ready yet) Anyway. We outchea. 😛
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