Education Mind Work: How a Ph.D. Affects Black Women

Receipt of the Ph.D. is the ultimate admission to nerd-dom. It is also the beginning of a lifetime of set aside experiences. Folks could respect you, for example, for earning a doctoral degree and could exclaim loudly to neighbors about your success; they just had little practical use for you and many times didn't know what to do with you.
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