Jessica Krug claimed that she had been fleeing trauma when she invented her multiple ethnicitiesIn an essay about demonstrations in Puerto Rico last summer, a George Washington University professor named Jessica Krug attacked impostors who tried to claim that they were leading the protests. “I am boricua, just so you know,” she wrote. “Boricua, not Puerto Rican, to reflect the name by which the indigenous people knew the island before Columbus invaded.”Beneath the essay, a small biography explained that the author was “an unrepentant and unreformed child of the hood” who was perpetually involved in “the struggle for her community in El Barrio” in Harlem, New York. She had also portrayed herself as African-American and was known as a respected historian of colonialism and the African diaspora who assailed white supremacy in all its forms. Professor Krug has

Source: The Times September 04, 2020 16:07 UTC