&gt; Interestingly (in a sad way), I couldn&#x27;t find any African American assistant professor professor in the list of ~100 schools I got for that field (although I did find &quot;African Africans&quot; and &quot;African Europeans&quot; or whatever you call being black and not American).<p>That leads to a question not often discussed. I have seen in other places too that black people that are from outside US fare better in US than African-Americans. Is there a point in which the years lived under systemic racism have side effects of learned helplessness that amplify and perpetuate the initial problem?