RaceBaitr said on Thursday that it had removed Professor Krug’s work from its website. Yomaira Figueroa, an associate professor of global diaspora studies at Michigan State University, said in an interview that it was considered an “amazing book” and “field-changing.”“I know a lot of folks who really respect her as a historian,” Professor Figueroa said. But last week, several Black Latina scholars started questioning Professor Krug’s background, according to Professor Figueroa, who declined to identify the scholars. One of the scholars, Professor Figueroa said, believed that Professor Krug had also been lying about her identity. In an essay published last year in Essence, Professor Krug, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012, called herself “boricua,” or Puerto Rican.

Source: New York Times September 04, 2020 00:45 UTC