A Bit of Orange

A news article just came across my feed and I needed to share it with you. For context, Indigenous means American Indian, or Native American, or whatever term isn’t considered racist this week on Twitter. Emily Carr University is a school of of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada.

Artist Gina Adams, whose claim to Indigenous identity raised doubts, has resigned from her post as assistant professor at Emily Carr University, according to a statement released by the school yesterday, September 6. Adams, whose multimedia work explores themes of heritage, ancestry, ritual, and land, was hired in 2019 at Emily Carr as part of a targeted cluster hire of new Indigenous faculty members….

“Emily Carr University takes very seriously the allegations that a member of our faculty made a false claim to Indigenous identity,” the school’s statement reads, adding that an “Indigenous-led external review” would be initiated to establish better procedures for confirming the veracity of claims of Indigenous identity in their hiring process.

https://hyperallergic.com/758937/artist-accused-of-faking-indigenous-identity-quits-university-post/

So, right off the bat, this school has such racist hiring policies that they feel the need to check your family background to make sure you are the race you are claiming to be. Because, it SEEMS, they are hiring based on race. Which, correct me if I am wrong, is the very definition of racist.