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How academic tokenism multiplies professional burden

I teach Native American Studies but I'm the only Indigenous faculty member, and my department keeps asking me to be on every diversity committee like being Native makes me an expert on all marginalized experiences.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional diversity efforts often extract additional labor from the very people they claim to support.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous identity and land?”

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