"As she left, the men told her she was 'still 100 percent black.' As she made her way to campus, however, she says she 'felt triumphant and sad' --triumphant because, although the men 'had read the education in her language as proof of her 'imitation whiteness,' she was able 'to shed her academic self consciousness' and belong, to be seen as 'part of the group, as authentic." - Vershawn Ashanti Young