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  • CRRES Associate Director Michelle Moyd Comments on Professor Lying about Being Black

CRRES Associate Director Michelle Moyd Comments on Professor Lying about Being Black

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Dr. Michelle Moyd

Dr. Michelle Moyd, CRRES Associate Director and Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History, comments on Jessica Krug in the San Diego Tribune, along with Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae, Associate Professor of Communication Arts at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Moyd identifies Krug’s behavior as minstrelsy, a racist tradition with a long history in the US. Read the full conversation below:

"Professor admits to lying about being Black; scholars discuss how racism helped enable her deception"

Read the full article at the San Diego Tribune

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