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When colleagues expect you to be the diversity educator

My white coworkers keep asking me to explain racism to them and I'm exhausted but if I don't do it who will and if I do it wrong they'll think all Latinos are angry.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The burden of representation transforms individual identity into a teaching performance that serves others' comfort over authentic self-expression.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Diaspora identity — living between worlds?”

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