'Recent studies prove a racialized component to impostor syndrome.'
, who created the term “Ebonics” to validate the use of African American Vernacular English while advocating for culturally informed testing. Like feminist psychology, Black psychology had a related desire to acknowledge the psychological experiences of marginalized individuals, but was criticized for viewing race independently. It is within this political landscape that impostor syndrome research was born.
Despite later research that clarified that men also experience the impostor syndrome, Clance and Imes hypothesized that the phenomenon only affected women and argued that sexist socialization messages encouraged men to externalize their failures and internalize successes while encouraging women to do the opposite.
For most Black women, who have had any professional interactions with people who are not Black women, this hypothesis probably makes sense but it fails to account for the experience of being simultaneously Black and a woman. This might be due to the fact that the sample of participants Clance and Imes used for their initial study was painfully homogeneous consisting of majority White, educated, middle to upper class women.
Traditional views of the impostor syndrome as either gendered or racialized completely miss the mark and neglect to consider how racism and sexism interlock to form a nuanced and exacerbated form of oppression.acknowledges the risk for vulnerable groups’ experiences being erased or ignored when only utilizing a “single-axis” of analysis.
Black women live in a society that consistently communicates to them that they aren’t worthy of professional success. On the job, Black women tend to have less access to supervisory
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