HOW BAD IS THE JOB MARKET IN ACADEMIC HISTORY?

Bad enough that faking a Mexican ancestry is a thing.  "Another week, another unmasking of a white professor allegedly posing as a person of color: this time it’s Kelly Kean Sharp, a scholar of African American history who resigned abruptly Tuesday from her assistant professorship at Furman University."

I thought nobody would choose an identity that exposed them to opprobrium.  Let facts be submitted to a candid World.  "This year alone has seen the unmasking of a handful of white academics who have posed as nonwhite: BethAnn McLaughlin, Jessica Krug, C. V. Vitolo-Haddad and Craig Chapman."

A commenter at University Diaries says the quiet part out loud.  "Especially when the jealous, underemployed grad school classmates start digging into genealogical records! A perfect confluence of fraud and envy that make for an almost self-regulating market."  Jealousy based on switching from Luther College (Decorah, Iowa, where Norwegian might be the first language) to Furman, forsooth.  But with the diversity offices pressuring the search committees to diversify, if there aren't enough genuine protected-status individuals, there will be fakes.  Sorry, "identity can be quite fluid."