{"id":60130,"date":"2020-09-11T01:34:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T01:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60130"},"modified":"2020-09-11T01:34:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T01:34:33","slug":"jessica-krug-and-the-theft-of-black-latina-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60130","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Krug and the theft of Black Latina identity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/9\/5\/1974886\/-Jessica-Krug-and-the-theft-of-Black-Latina-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Jessica Krug and the theft of Black Latina identity.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a><br \/>\n2020-09-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Deoliver47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Denise Oliver Velez<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/9\/5\/1974886\/-Jessica-Krug-and-the-theft-of-Black-Latina-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailykos.com\/images\/852009\/story_image\/JessicaKrugfakeafrolatina.jpg?1599214413\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/history.columbian.gwu.edu\/jessica-krug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Jessica A. Krug<\/a>, a white woman from Kansas, who has been passing herself off as an Afro-Latina<br \/>\n<em>Professor Jessica Krug, panelist, Diasporic Politics panel Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) 25th Anniversary Conference, Friday , Columbia University, April 26, 2019<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We all know what identity theft is, in a world filled with cyber crimes. We\u2019ve all watched horror films with body snatchers as the main villains. Things become far more complicated when we address the issue of humans who, for a host of warped reasons, assume a false racial or ethnic identity.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/history.columbian.gwu.edu\/jessica-krug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Jessica A. Krug<\/a>, who is currently an Associate Professor of African American history at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Washington University<\/a>. Krug has for years portrayed herself as Black, and Afro-Latina, while publishing her academic work, receiving grant funding, teaching and also acting as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Latin_Americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afro-Latina<\/a> political activist from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bronx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bronx<\/a> under the pseudonym \u201cJess La Bombalera,\u201d all the while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hiding her real self<\/a> \u2014 a white woman from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_City,_Kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kansas City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her exposure as a fraud, has unleashed a firestorm of pushback on social media and in academia, similar to the exposure of black-passing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/06\/12\/spokane-naacp-president-rachel-dolezal-may-be-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> in 2015&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/9\/5\/1974886\/-Jessica-Krug-and-the-theft-of-Black-Latina-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know what identity theft is, in a world filled with cyber crimes. We\u2019ve all watched horror films with body snatchers as the main villains. Things become far more complicated when we address the issue of humans who, for a host of warped reasons, assume a false racial or ethnic identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,8,6462,20,25],"tags":[18522,20529,5839,31106,31107,20241],"class_list":["post-60130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-daily-kos","tag-denise-oliver-velez","tag-george-washington-university","tag-jessica-a-krug","tag-jessica-krug","tag-rachel-dolezal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60132,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60130\/revisions\/60132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}