Another White Lady Gets Caught Trying to Pass for Brown
The latest is Andrea Smith, a Native American professor at UC Riverside, who turns out not to be Native American at all, but (oh horror! Oh shame!) white.
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The latest is Andrea Smith, a Native American professor at UC Riverside, who turns out not to be Native American at all, but (oh horror! Oh shame!) white.
By Sarah Viren May 25, 2021 … J. Kehaulani Kauanui had just woken up. She was reading a story on her phone in bed, a confession written by a woman named Jessica Krug, when, quite suddenly, it yanked her into the past. “To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City,” wrote Krug, a history professor who had for years identified — and published — as a Black and Latina scholar. “I have thought about ending these lies many times over many years,” she continued, “but my cowardice was always more powerf...
The Native Scholar Who Wasnât https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html Andrea SmithCredit...Photo illustration by Joan Wong. Source photograph by Tom Zasadzinski/Cal Poly Pomona; Alamy. Sections The Native Scholar Who Wasnât More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive? Andrea SmithCredit...Photo illustration by Joan Wong. Source photograph by Tom Zasadzinski/Cal Poly Pomona; Alamy. Listen to This ArticleAudio Recording by Audm To hear more a...