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After receiving my master's at Fisk, I went on to Yale to complete my PhD.
在菲斯克大學獲得碩士學位后，我去了耶魯大學，完成了博士學業。
Once I was physically occupying the space that would ultimately give way to my childhood aspirations, I anticipated a smooth glide to the PhD.
看來，只要我占據了有利位置，踏上通往博士之路，實現我的兒時夢想，獲得博士學位就是分分鐘的事。
It became immediately apparent that not everyone was thrilled to have that degree of liminality in their space.
但很顯然，并不是每個人都允許自己的領域出現像我們這樣的人。
I was ostracized by many of my classmates, one of whom went so far as to invite me to "do what I really came here to do"
我被許多同學排斥，其中一個極為過分，他要求我“去做我應該做的工作”，
as he pushed all the dirty dishes from our meal in front of me to clean up.
然后把食堂的所有臟盤子都丟給我。
I wish that were an isolated occurrence,
我也曾希望這只是個別現象，
but for many women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, this is something they have long endured.
但是對于許多非白人女性而言，尤其是那些在科學、技術、工程和數學領域--簡稱STEM--工作的，這種事兒對她們而言已是家常便飯。
One hundred percent of the 60 women of color interviewed in a recent study by Joan C. Williams at UC Hastings
60名非白人女性參加了一項調查，由加州大學哈斯汀法學院的瓊·C·威廉姆斯發起，
reported facing racialized gender bias, including being mistaken for the janitorial staff.
她們全部聲稱自己遭遇過種族性別歧視，包括被誤認為是看門人。
This mistaken identity was not reported by any of the white women interviewed for this study, which comprised 557 women in total.
而同樣參加此項調查的白人女性從未遇到過類似遭遇，而參加調查的女性共有557位。
While there is nothing inherently wrong with a janitorial position,
當然，看門人的工作并沒有什么問題，
and in fact my forefathers and foremothers were able to attend college because many of their parents worked these jobs,
實際上我的祖輩們能夠上大學多虧了他們的父母有很多就是看門人，
it was a clear attempt to put me in my place.
很明顯，我同學這樣做是給我畫地為牢。
