Marginalized intellectuals are expected to represent entire communities, not just themselves.

Evidence

I carry around at least three: I’m expected to speak for the entire black race on all questions theoretical, critical, etc.; sometimes for British politics; as well as for Cultural Studies. This is what is known as the black person’s burden, and I would like to absolve myself of it at this moment. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 234

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the sociological concept of ‘burden of representation’ in minority media and to Gayatri Spivak’s work on representations of the subaltern. — connects to: Anglophone third-world intellectuals are elevated into representatives of entire civilizations.