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Why representation can feel like a performance trap

I am one of three Black students in my graduate program and I feel like I have to be perfect all the time or I prove their assumptions right.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The burden of symbolic representation creates impossible standards that individual achievement cannot dismantle.

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