{"id":60104,"date":"2020-09-03T19:45:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60104"},"modified":"2020-09-03T21:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:58:39","slug":"white-gwu-professor-admits-she-falsely-claimed-black-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60104","title":{"rendered":"White GWU professor admits she falsely claimed Black identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

White GWU professor admits she falsely claimed Black identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2020-09-03<\/p>\n

Lauren Lumpkin<\/strong><\/a> and Susan Svrluga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nA George Washington University<\/a> history professor falsely claimed a Black identity throughout her life, she admitted Thursday. (Jonathan Newton\/The Washington Post<\/em>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\nJessica A. Krug<\/a>, an associate professor at George Washington University<\/a>, said she\u2019s claimed a Black identity throughout her career.<\/em><\/p>\n

A history professor at George Washington University admitted in a blog<\/a> post to claiming a Black identity, despite being White.<\/p>\n

Jessica A. Krug<\/a> said she has deceived friends and colleagues by falsely claiming several identities, including \u201cNorth African<\/a> Blackness, then US<\/a> rooted Blackness, then Caribbean<\/a> rooted Bronx<\/a> Blackness,\u201d she wrote in a blog post on Medium<\/em><\/a>. Krug, whose areas of expertise include African American history, Africa<\/a> and Latin America<\/a>, is White and Jewish, she admitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not a culture vulture. I am a culture leech,\u201d Krug wrote. \u201cI have thought about ending these lies many times over many years, but my cowardice was always more powerful than my ethics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither Krug nor the university immediately returned a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Krug, in the blog post, said she has been battling \u201cunaddressed mental health demons\u201d for her entire life. She said she started to assume a false identity as a child.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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