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How racial isolation affects friendship formation in predominantly white spaces

I am the only person of color in my neighborhood and workplace and I feel exhausted by always being the only one and I do not know how to find my people in this context.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The emotional labor of being the only one can exhaust the very energy needed to build authentic relationships.

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