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Another White Professor Resigns After Claiming To Be Person Of Color

Ashe Schow
Another White Professor Resigns After Claiming To Be Person Of Color
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A scholar of African American history at Furman University has resigned after an anonymous post on Medium claimed she was not Chicana, as she claimed.

Kelly Kean Sharp resigned after an anonymous writer who said he or she had “distantly known” Sharp when she was getting her doctorate at the University of California. The writer said he or she was “more than surprised to find out that [Sharp] was now describing herself as Chicana.”

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