Cultural Appropriation - Yay or Nay?

[MadZealot]

Not sarcasm, that's American academia diversity hiring.

Not diverse enough. We need a one-drop rule.

[sailor]

do you have a reference for that? Not that I don't believe you, but I'd like to see it anyhow.

I guess you haven't been following the news about Fauxahantes, aka Elizabeth Warren of Harvard. She listed herself as Native American at various law schools until she got tenure at Harvard. Of course Harvard isn't going to say she was hired over somebody else for being part Native American, although she was hired shortly after the school got hit for not being diverse. She was listed as part of their diversity.

Turns out she's not even 1/32nd. The great great grandfather wasn't a Cherokee, he just helped to force the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears.

[MadZealot]

I guess you haven't been following the news about Fauxahantes, aka Elizabeth Warren of Harvard. She listed herself as Native American at various law schools until she got tenure at Harvard. Of course Harvard isn't going to say she was hired over somebody else for being part Native American, although she was hired shortly after the school got hit for not being diverse. She was listed as part of their diversity.

Turns out she's not even 1/32nd. The great great grandfather wasn't a Cherokee, he just helped to force the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears.

Will she be able to keep her job, having falsified info on her app? Especially if that info was a factor in her 'diverse' employment?
In the places where I've worked, you get caught lying on your app: *poof* You're gone.

[mandrina]

Will she be able to keep her job, having falsified info on her app? Especially if that info was a factor in her 'diverse' employment?
In the places where I've worked, you get caught lying on your app: *poof* You're gone.

what I saw, if they mentioned what the hiring board said at all, which most of them didn't, but the boston globe, I think, said that the hiring board, when asked, said her 'native american' was not known to them, but only came out later, after she was hired. Not that Harvard didn't use it to tout diversity, but that's what the unidentified person said.

[sailor]

what I saw, if they mentioned what the hiring board said at all, which most of them didn't, but the boston globe, I think, said that the hiring board, when asked, said her 'native american' was not known to them, but only came out later, after she was hired. Not that Harvard didn't use it to tout diversity, but that's what the unidentified person said.

At that point the hiring board and their staff need to be fired. They obviously didn't look in the law school faculty yearbook.