Carol Swain, the author and legal scholar whose work was allegedly plagiarized by Harvard President Claudine Gay, blasted Harvard University in an op-ed published Sunday, saying the school is part of a system “that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard.”
In her opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, Swain addressed Gay’s alleged plagiarism that researchers Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet brought to light last week, writing that the Harvard president’s failure to cite her work harmed her and “academia as a whole.”
“Ms. Gay’s damage to me is aggravated because her early work was in the area where my research is considered seminal. Her scholarship on black congressional representation, electoral districting and descriptive representation builds on terrain where I plowed the ground,” Swain wrote.
“When scholars aren’t cited adequately or…
