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'Racial Impostor Syndrome': Here Are Your Stories

By Leah Donnella — 2017

"Racial impostor syndrome" is definitely a thing for many people. We hear from biracial and multi-ethnic listeners who connect with feeling "fake" or inauthentic in some part of their racial or ethnic heritage.

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Dealing with Impostor Syndrome When You’re Treated as an Impostor

Impostor syndrome is not a unique feeling, but some researchers believe it hits minority groups harder.

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Kristin Wong
2018
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Why Imposter Syndrome Hits Women and Women of Colour Harder

Self-doubt and imposter syndrome permeate the workplace, but women, especially women of colour, are particularly likely to experience it. Why is this—and how can it be changed?

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Sheryl Nance-Nash
2020
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Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome

“Imposter syndrome,” or doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud at work, is a diagnosis often given to women. But the fact that it’s considered a diagnosis at all is problematic.

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Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey
2021
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Imposter Syndrome, or Something Else? Historian Talks ‘Discriminatory Gaslighting’

For the longest time, Christy Pichichero says she thought she was plagued with imposter syndrome, you know, that feeling that you don’t belong, that you don’t quite deserve your success. But this past year, she took a step back and coined a whole new phrase for what she’s been experiencing.

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Lulu Garcia Navarro
2021
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Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students that They Do Not Belong

“Students from low-income backgrounds receive daily reminders—interpersonal and institutional, symbolic and structural—that they are the ones who do not belong.”

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Alex Jovel, Miranda Townes Hope, Thomas E. LaBarge, Albert Arriola, David Welch, Ruth A. Rouff, Ashish Ranpura
2019
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How Parents Can Ward Against “Imposter Syndrome”

Today in my interactions with college students and young scientists in training, I’m often struck by the limits that they are placing on their own potential by comparing their achievements to those of others.

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Tricia Serio
2016
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Beyond the Jokes: Imposter Syndrome in Students

Imposter syndrome, alongside alcoholism and chronic insomnia, is one of the experiences key to the morbid trinity of student life; the quirks forming the foundation of every post on every university confessions page.

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Sophie Kernachan
2020
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You Are Not an Imposter, You Are for Real.

We’ve all heard the fake it till you make it a phenomenon. Like every student. A person with imposter syndrome can have all the training in the world with the finest degrees, and still not believe they have the right for people to recognize their accomplishments.

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Muse Admin Team
2021
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Do You Suffer from Imposter Syndrome?

I realize now that no matter how much I “accomplish” or the goals I achieve, I still second-guess myself; I struggle to feel fulfilled.

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Cynthia Ceballos
2021
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What Students Are Saying About ‘Impostor Syndrome,’ Beloved Places and Finding Balance in 2021

“Do you ever have feelings of self-doubt, that you’re not good enough or that you don’t belong?” we asked students in our Student Opinion question inspired by Smarter Living’s guide on “How to Overcome ‘Impostor Syndrome.’”

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The Learning Network
2021
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