A white US university professor who lied for years about being black has quit her job at George Washington University in the capital Washington, the school said Wednesday.
has quit her job at George Washington University in the capital Washington, the school said Wednesday.
Dr Krug - a history professor focusing on Africa - said she had been pretending to be black"for the better part" of her adult life. Update regarding Jessica Krug: Dr. Krug has resigned her position, effective immediately. Her classes for this semester will be taught by other faculty members, and students in those courses will receive additional information this week.Dr Krug, who is light-skinned, said she first claimed"North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness."
Dr Krug said on Medium that her actions were the"very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation, of the myriad ways in which non-Black people continue to use and abuse Black identities and cultures."
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