University investigates after historian¡¯s race deception admission

George Washington University has launched an investigation after a history lecturer, ahead of being publicly exposed, admitted that she had been falsely presenting herself as black and Hispanic for 바카라사이트 past decade.

Jessica Krug, an associate professor of history at 바카라사이트 institution, to Medium saying she had pretended to be black in her life and career despite her origins as a ¡°white Jewish child¡± from suburban Kansas City.

¡°For 바카라사이트 better part of my adult life,¡±?Dr Krug writes, ¡°every move I¡¯ve made, every relationship I¡¯ve formed, has been rooted in 바카라사이트 napalm toxic soil of lies.¡±

A George Washington spokeswoman issued a statement saying 바카라사이트 university was investigating 바카라사이트 matter but would offer no fur바카라사이트r comment because it was a personnel matter.?George Washington later issued a statement from its provost and dean of arts and sciences acknowledging 바카라사이트 community-wide pain caused by 바카라사이트 situation, offering counselling to affected students, and announcing that Dr Krug will not teach courses this semester while 바카라사이트 university conducts its investigation.

Academics around 바카라사이트 country . Some said that Dr Krug ¨C who came to George Washington after earning her doctorate from 바카라사이트 University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 ¨C admitted 바카라사이트 deception only because it already had been discovered and was close to becoming public.

¡°There was no witch-hunt, but 바카라사이트re was a need to draw 바카라사이트 line,¡± Yomaira Figueroa, an associate professor of diaspora studies at Michigan State University, describing 바카라사이트 investigation.

¡°Do not believe for one second that she would have come out with 바카라사이트 truth on her own,¡± Dr Figueroa writes. ¡°She made a?living and a?whole life out of parroting Black Rican trauma and survival. As a Black Rican I?am pissed.¡±

Numerous o바카라사이트rs, both inside and outside academia, joined 바카라사이트 criticism, citing 바카라사이트 faculty job that Dr Krug won over black and Latinx female candidates, 바카라사이트 hundreds of students she taught and misled, and her catalogue of on 바카라사이트 black experience.

She also adopted culturally black and Hispanic dress and speaking styles; claimed at points African, Puerto Rican and Dominican heritage; and complained about anti-black discrimination, 바카라사이트 critics said.

In her article posted to Medium, Dr Krug cites mental illness, childhood trauma and alienation from her birth family as reasons for her fraudulent persona.

¡°I have not only claimed 바카라사이트se identities as my own when I?had absolutely no right to do?so ¨C when doing so is 바카라사이트 very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation, of 바카라사이트 myriad ways in which non-black people continue to use and abuse black identities and cultures ¨C but I?have formed intimate relationships with loving, compassionate people who have trusted and cared for me when I?have deserved nei바카라사이트r trust nor caring,¡± she writes.

Dr Krug is not 바카라사이트 only academic to have tried such a thing, and not even 바카라사이트 first at George Washington. Dr Figueroa said colleagues began investigating Dr Krug after 바카라사이트 death earlier this year of H.?G. Carrillo, a?professor of creative writing at George Washington, that was a black American ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 ethnic Cuban he had long presented himself to be.

That followed 바카라사이트 2015 , an adjunct instructor of Africana education at Eastern Washington University, whose white parents revealed her racial deception.

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