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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 Wasn’t 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 Wasn’t 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...

Academic Left-Wing Bias in Canada Threatens Dissenting Voices Some three-quarters of Canadian academics describe themselves as being on the political left, leaving right-wing professors quiet about their contrary views. The U.S.-based Centre for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology surveyed academics and PhD students at universities in Canada, the United States, and the UK. In a recent report, it found that 73 percent of Canadian social sciences and humanities (SSH) academics identify with the left, while only 4 percent identify with the right. Those in the right-leaning minority said they ...

Updated May 18 at 8:00 PM All autumn leaves and red brick, the town of Rutherford Falls is an idealized but embattled Northeastern backdrop for the new Peacock original comedy series bearing the same name. Also fictional are the Minishonka, the Indigenous nation adjacent to the town. Invented tribal people aside, Rutherford Falls star and staff writer Jana Schmieding still feels the dynamics of her Oregon youth resonating throughout the new show, created by Ed Helms, Sierra Teller Ornelas and Mike Schur. The similarities exist in how the show’s townsfolk interact with the Minishonka—...