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An essay --"Why I No Longer Eat Watermelon, or How a Racist Email Caused Me to Leave Graduate School"-- starts by describing that incident, from 2011. The piece is spreading rapidly among graduate students, especially those who are not white, and many are saying that it provides an important perspective on their isolation and the kinds of experiences that encourage so many to leave graduate school.
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