White GWU professor admits she falsely claimed Black identityPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Campus Life, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2020-09-03 19:45Z by Steven |
White GWU professor admits she falsely claimed Black identity
The Washington Post
2020-09-03
Lauren Lumpkin and Susan Svrluga
 A George Washington University history professor falsely claimed a Black identity throughout her life, she admitted Thursday. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) |
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Jessica A. Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, said she’s claimed a Black identity throughout her career.
A history professor at George Washington University admitted in a blog post to claiming a Black identity, despite being White.
Jessica A. Krug said she has deceived friends and colleagues by falsely claiming several identities, including “North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness,” she wrote in a blog post on Medium. Krug, whose areas of expertise include African American history, Africa and Latin America, is White and Jewish, she admitted.
“I am not a culture vulture. I am a culture leech,” Krug wrote. “I have thought about ending these lies many times over many years, but my cowardice was always more powerful than my ethics.”
Neither Krug nor the university immediately returned a request for comment.
Krug, in the blog post, said she has been battling “unaddressed mental health demons” for her entire life. She said she started to assume a false identity as a child.
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