The abiding problem of authenticity

Jessica Krug

Material relevant to our class, ripped from the headlines. We’ll be talking about authenticity as a problem in general for ingroup boundary police. Krug’s case is very like the examples of literary hoaxes we’ll look at later in the semester. Read about it at Inside Higher Ed: “White Lies: Prominent scholar outs herself as white just as she faced exposure for presenting herself as Black.”