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In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World
In Full Color Finding My Place in a Black and White World Author:Rachel Doležal A lot of people think they know what Rachel Dole?al is. — Race faker. Liar. Opportunist. Crazy bitch. — But they don?t get to decide who Rachel Dole?al is. — 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? — On June 11, 2015, the media “outed? Rachel Dole?al as a... more » 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.
With In Full Color, Rachael Dole?al 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 identified as black. Along the way, she?ll discuss 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, D.C., and the discrimination she?s suffered while living as a black woman.
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.« less