PROBLEMATIC, ESPECIALLY IN HER
ROLE AS AN EDUCATOR.
NEIGHBORS DESCRIBED HER AS AN
INTELLIGENT GIRL AND ACTIVIST.
PICTURES FROM A BARSTOW SCHOOL
YEARBOOK SHOW SHE WAS ACTIVE IN
CLUBS DEVOTED TO POLITICAL
DISCUSSIONS.
HER NEIGHBORS WERE SURPRISED TO
HEAR SHE HAD -- WERE NOT
SURPRISED SHE AGREED IT TO BE A
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR BUT WAS --
WORSE LYSED -- WERE SURPRISED TO
HEAR SHE WAS PRESENTING AS A
LACK WOMAN.
SHE ACKNOWLEDGED THE HARM CAUSED
BY HER FALSE IDENTITY, WRITING
ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND TRAUMA,
WRITING THAT COULD NEVER EXCUSE
HER ACTIONS.
>> AS A WOMAN OF COLOR AND A
SCHOLAR, I WAS REALLY TAKEN
ABACK.
BIANCA: SHE’S THE PROFESSOR OF
RACE AND GENDER STUDIES AT U
CASEIN SAYS THIS LEVEL OF
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION IS
TROUBLING ON MANY LEVELS,
ESPECIALLY IN ACADEMIA.
>> PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE
UNDERREPRESENTED IN SO MANY
FIELDS.
THE IMPORTANCE NOT JUST
SYMBOLICALLY OF HAVING PEOPLE OF
VARIOUS RACES AND ETHNIC GROUNDS
BEING IN CERTAIN POSITIONS, BUT
THE NEED FOR THAT IN TERMS
