End of Discussion by Mary Katharine Ham

Author:Mary Katharine Ham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

What a coincidence! To recap, this white woman decided that she’d start claiming Native American lineage just prior to making a blockbuster career jump into the Ivies, and continued to “check that box,” so to speak, until she was safely ensconced as a tenured professor at the nation’s most prestigious law school—at which point she decided to drop the designation. She and her defenders have insisted that her (unverified, at best) status as a minority played no role whatsoever in her advancement, but that doesn’t pass the laugh test.

Both Harvard and Penn touted her as a treasured minority faculty member in official literature. Harvard did so amid heavy criticism over its lack of diversity. In some sense, this arrangement was a win/win. The universities got someone they could parade in front of the “celebrate diversity” police, and Warren was rewarded with cushy, high-paying jobs oozing with prestige and opportunities for networking and advancement—which could come in handy for, say, an eventual U.S. Senate run. But if she didn’t suddenly begin exploiting family rumors to classify herself as a Native American for cynical self-serving purposes, why did she do it? Her answer, via the Boston Herald:

I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off.

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