Believing oneself underqualified impairs Black performance under racial honor pressure.

Evidence

African Americans perform less well than they are capable of if they believe that they are underqualified compared with white students, but must nevertheless uphold the honor of their race. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1982

Categorization

• XREF: Evokes Steele’s stereotype threat literature, likely a reading-list worth adding.