Jessica Krug admitted she's actually a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.
A professor of African American history at a university in the US has revealed she's been pretending to be black.
Jessica Krug admitted she's actually a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.
The academic - and author of several black history books - called her various identities as being built on a 'toxic soil of lies' and called herself a 'culture leech'.
Jessica Krug, 38. Image: Twitter.In a blog post on website Medium, Ms Krug revealed that she had assumed many false identities including "North African Blackness, US rooted Blackness (and) Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness".
"I have not only claimed these identities as my own when I had absolutely no right to do so - when doing so is the very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation, of the myriad ways in which non-Black people continue to use and abuse Black identities and cultures - but I have formed intimate relationships with loving, compassionate people who have trusted and cared for me when I have deserved neither trust nor caring," she wrote.
"I have built my life on a violent anti-Black lie, and I have lied in every breath I have taken... I am not a culture vulture. I am a culture leech."
According to the George Washington University website, Ms Krug has a doctorate and "is a historian of politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African diaspora".
