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Why academic achievement can feel like entering hostile territory

I got into an Ivy League school and my family is proud but I feel like I am walking into the same institution that was built to exclude people like us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational advancement within colonial institutions creates complex feelings about success, belonging, and complicity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Postcolonial identity and decolonization?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.