Publisher denounces Jessica Krug for pretending to be black

Duke University Press says all proceeds from Krug’s book Fugitive Modernities will go to support black and Latinx scholars

The publisher of Jessica Krug, the white academic who revealed she had pretended to be black for years, says she is “sickened, angered, and saddened” and that all proceeds from Krug’s book will go to a fund supporting black and Latinx scholars.

Krug, a white Jewish woman from Kansas and professor focusing on imperialism, colonialism and African American history at George Washington University, admitted in a Medium post earlier this month that she had “assumed identities within a blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US-rooted blackness, then Caribbean-rooted Bronx blackness”. After the university cancelled classes taught by Krug, and her colleagues called on her to step down, Krug resigned from her position last week .

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