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There sure are a lot of white people pretending to be nonwhite.
What’s going on with that?
An Emily Carr University professor who made a career as an indigenous artist and scholar has resigned after it was discovered she is white.
“Gina Adams was among a group of faculty hired in a cluster in 2019 as part of a ‘commitment to reconciliation, Indigenization and decolonization,’” the Vancouver Sun reported, adding a spokesperson for the Canadian institution released a statement confirming Adams resigned from her tenure-track adjunct professor position Aug. 25.
“Emily Carr University takes very seriously the allegations that a member of our faculty made a false claim to Indigenous identity,” the statement read.
The Daily Mail reported that Adams was born in Connecticut and is actually the “white daughter of Maine pageant queen,” but claimed the “idea for her ingenious-inspired artwork came to her in ‘dreams,’ courtesy of her Anishinaabeg ancestors.”
“But internet sleuths dug into her background and found that her grandfather and relatives are in fact white, with no link to Native Americans.”
In August 2019, my former employer @EmilyCarrU hired Gina Adams, an “Ojibwe-Lakota” artist, as part of a restricted search for Indigenous faculty. Then people started asking questions about her identity— including me. My first feature for @macleans:https://t.co/vScMHM8Mfj
— Michelle Cyca (@michellecyca) September 6, 2022
The issue was first reported in a very lengthy investigative report in the October 2022 issue of Macleans magazine headlined “The Curious Case of Gina Adams: A ‘Pretendian’ investigation,” which detailed Adams’ story:
In March of 2021, 19 months after Adams took the job at Emily Carr, an anonymous Twitter account called NoMoreRedFace posted a tweet that read: “Would you FAKE a residential school survivor backstory to sell $35,000 quilts and land a tenure track professorship in Aboriginal art?” The tweet then named Gina Adams, saying that “research suggests” she had done “just that.”
The NoMoreRedFace account had begun posting in late 2020, sharing detailed and deeply researched threads investigating the claims of individuals who had leveraged their Indigenous identities for prestige and profit. No one knew who was behind it, and not everyone liked it: many Indigenous people were adamant that anonymous accusations were not the right way to deal with identity fraud. …
In its 13-tweet thread on Adams, NoMoreRedFace documented her ancestry claims, along with a family tree that disputed them. According to the thread, Adams’s grandfather was not Ojibwe at all; he was a white man named Albert Theriault, who was born in Massachusetts to French-Canadian parents.
By the time the thread was posted, Adams had been appointed as an assistant dean, featured by the Wall Street Journal and included in an exhibition of Indigenous artists at the Brooklyn Museum. Her career, which was inexorably tied to her Indigenous identity, was on the rise.
After the Twitter thread, Adams released a vague statement about her ancestry and continued to teach at the school, the magazine reported, but added the misrepresentations eventually caught up to her.
The university has now pledged to undertake an indigenous-led external review to “make recommendations for how we assess identity in a culturally-appropriate way when hiring for positions designated for Indigenous candidates,” the Sun reported.
The College Fix published an article in 2021 documenting six other white female academics who had been pretending to be nonwhite in order to get a professional benefit.
Frankly, this doesn’t say much about the women, and it says a lot about the situation in America right now.
If “people of color” are oppressed, then why is it such a benefit to people’s careers to pretend to be a person of color?
No one seems to want to answer that question.
