Jessica Krug, the white professor who pretended to be black, denounced by publisher

Publisher, Gisela Fosada, said to be“sickened, angered and saddened” by Krug’s fraudulent actions

FRAUD: Jessica Krug

JESSICA KRUG, a white professor who pretended to be black during her entire professional career, has been denounced by her publisher Duke University Press. All proceeds from her book, Fugitive Modernities, will now go to support black and latinx scholars.

Krug, a white, Jew from Kansas, confessed to her actions in a self-published Medium post in September 2020.

She wrote: “I assumed various identities within a blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African blackness, then US rooted blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx blackness.

Identities

“I have not only claimed these identities as my own… but I have formed intimate relationships with people who have trusted and cared for me.”

I have been sickened, angered, and saddened by the many years that she deployed gross racial stereotypes to build her fake identity.

Duke University Press statement

“My continued appropriation of black Caribbean identity is not only, in the starkest terms, wrong – unethical, immoral, anti-black, colonial – but it means that every step I’ve taken has gaslighted those whom I love”.

Krug was a professor at George Washington University, teaching “politics, ideas, and cultural practises in Africa and the African Diaspora, with a particular interest in West Central Africa and maroon societies in the early modern period and Black transnational cultural studies.”

After her statement, the university immediately cancelled classes and opened an investigation into her actions. After her colleagues called on her to step down, Krug resigned.

Slave trade

Her book Fugitive Modernities, published by Duke University Press, explores the expansive history of “those fleeing expanding states and the violence of the transatlantic slave trade”. It was highly acclaimed when first published and was even shortlisted for the Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass book prizes.

In a statement published on their website, Gisela Fosada of Duke University Press condemned Krug’s “decades-long fraudulent and hurtful appropriation”.

She also wrote: “I have been sickened, angered, and saddened by the many years that she deployed gross racial stereotypes to build her fake identity, and the way that she coupled her lies with a self-righteous policing of racial politics within the Black and Latinx circles that she intruded upon.”

Isolated

Krug’s racial fraudulence is unfortunately not an isolated event. In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white woman, was exposed for passing as a black woman. Dolezal also delved into academia, teaching Africana studies at Easterin Washington University.

At one point, she was the principal of her local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP). In 2017, Dolezal published a memoir titled In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.

Duke University Press announced that “deliberations about other actions will continue.”

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  1. | Chaka Artwell

    I am concerned Voice Readers have not cared to point out the injustice this Caucasian-heritage author has endured;
    because she identities so closely with African-caribbean heritage men and women.
    I know so many Caucasian-heritage women who identify closely with African-Caribbean men; and have children with African-Caribbean heritage men.
    How can the “Political Correct”, Left-wing types condemn Jessica Krug for identifying as African-heritage, whilst demanding that biological men who believe themselves to be women can demand to be referred to as “she?”
    Labour’s Hariett Harman’s 2010 Equalities Act requires people and institutions to call biological males who claim to be women, “she.”
    It is clear Labour and Left-wing sexual identity politics is only concerned to assist; help and support minority sexual politics of Caucasian Western Euorpean heritage men and women.

    The real Left -wing mantra is not Justice for ALL, but Justice for sexual minority issues of Western Caucasian European heritage men and women.

    In short the Homosexual; Trans and Gender wars today are skin-colour racist as the treatment of Jessica Krug and before her Rachel Dolezal demonstate
    Ms Rachel Dolezal, who identified closely with American people of African-heritage, became a global hate figure when she was outed as a ‘race faker.’

    All African-heritage men and women need to know and comprehend is Labour and Left-wing Marxists policies are dangerously skin-colour prejudice; and just uses African-heritage people to win seats in towns and cities.

    There is no substitute for African-heritage people having dedicated and independent political lobbying in England and the United States.

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