A Black woman prepares for a job interview, calculating how to wear her hair in ways that will not trigger assumptions she has learned some employers make, rehearsing answers that demonstrate competence without triggering perceptions of aggression that she knows attach to Black women who are too direct, modulating her voice to a register that projects professionalism without the code-switching feeling like erasure, the interview requiring not just demonstrating qualifications but navigating terrain where her race and gender interact to produce perceptions that neither her white women collea