A professor comes clean about pretending to be Black for most of her adult life: “To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness.” (For a while, I also tried to eschew my lived experience as a white Jewish child from the suburbs, but just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!)