Rachel Dolezal is back to her old tricks, trying to make "transracial" happen and capitalize on Black culture and issues.
Earlier this year, it was reported that Dolezal, who was caught
posing
as a Black woman in 2015, would be penning
a memoir about her experiences. While most people hoped sensible minds
would prevail and the project would fall apart, it seems that the book
is done and ready for pre-order on Amazon.
The title of the book is almost too ironic to bear.
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A lot of people have made up their minds about Rachel Doležal. But none of them know her real story.
In June 2015, the media “outed”
Rachel Doležal as a white woman who had knowingly been “passing” as
Black. When asked if she were African American during an interview about
the hate crimes directed at her and her family, she
hesitated before ending the interview and walking away. Some
interpreted her reluctance to respond and hasty departure as dishonesty,
while others assumed she lacked a reasonable explanation for the almost
unprecedented way she identified herself.
What determines your race? Is it your
DNA? The community in which you were raised? The way others see you or
the way you see yourself?
With In Full Color,
Rachel Doležal describes the path that led her from being a child of
white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter
president and respected educator and activist who identifies as Black.
Along the way, she recounts the deep emotional bond she formed with her
four adopted Black siblings, the sense of belonging she felt while
living in Black communities in Jackson, Mississippi,
and Washington, DC, and the experiences that have shaped her along the
way.
Her story is nuanced and complex, and in the process of telling it, she
forces us to consider race in an entirely new light—not as a biological
imperative, but as a function of the experiences we have, the culture we
embrace, and, ultimately, the identity we
choose.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Finally, Rachel Doležal in her own voice and words shares her
intriguing account and path of conscious self-definition, embodied in a
life of activism. . . . Rachel forces us all to question what we have
come to accept until now.”
—Bishop Clyde N.S. Ramalaine, author of Preach a Storm, Live a Tornado
"Rachel Dolezal’s early life memoir is not simply a narrative of radical
activism. . . . It serves to critique the cultural straightjacket of
traditionalist white ‘Protestant work ethic’ society. At this moment of
alt-right reactionism, it punctures the fake
nostalgia for an imagined pre-multiculturalism era of supposed purity
and authenticity.”
—Gavin Lewis, Black British writer and academic
About the Author
Rachel Doležal holds an MFA from Howard University. Her scholarly
research focus is the intersection of race, gender, and class in the
contemporary Black diaspora, with a specific emphasis on Black women in
visual culture. She is a licensed Intercultural
Competency & Diversity Trainer, dedicated to racial and social
justice activism. She has worked as an instructor at North Idaho College
and Eastern Washington University, where she also served as Advisor for
the schools’ Black Student Unions, as well as Whitworth
University, and has guest lectured at Spokane Community College,
University of Idaho, Gonzaga University, and Washington State
University.
Doležal began her activism in Mississippi, where she advocated for equal
rights and partnered with community developers, tutoring grade-school
children in Black history and art and pioneering African American
history courses at a predominantly white university.
She is the former Director of Education at the Human Rights Education
Institute in Idaho and has served as a consultant for human rights
education and inclusivity in regional public schools. She recently led
the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission to promote
police accountability and justice in law enforcement in Spokane,
Washington, and was the President of the Spokane Chapter of the NAACP.
She is the devoted mother of three sons.
Dolezal shared the cover of her book (editor's note: notice
the new accent on her last name) titled In Full Color, on Instagram,
informing her followers that it's available for pre-order on Amazon. The
book drops in March 2017, according to the
site:
Twitter wasted no time dragging Dolezal, and pointing out
the egregious white privilege that landed a white woman a book deal
talking about Black issues:
Watch Rachel Dolezal defend her identity on
The Real above.
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