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#RachelDolezal: A Reader

#RachelDolezal: A Reader

Last updated on: July 3, 2015 at 10:06 am by Andre E. Johnson

#RachelDolezal: A Reader 2015-07-03T10:06:58-05:00 Andre E. Johnson

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Rachel Dolezal caused quite a stir when she, as a white woman, self-identified as “Black.” Her announcement caused many in the media to again bring up questions of race, identity, and blackness. Just who gets to identify as black? Here at R3, we collected some of the opinions and essays on this subject. If you see one that needs to be on our list, please share it with us on Facebook or Twitter. If you would like to submit your own piece, just email it to us at [email protected]

1. #RachelDolezal and Misconstrued Privilege

2. Rachel Dolezal Is A Fraud & We Are Wasting Time Trying To Understand Her

3. The Outing of Rachel Dolezal and American Anxiety with Race

4. Questions Matt Lauer should have asked Rachel Dolezal

5. How Rachel Dolezal Forced Us to Examine Who Gets to Be Black

6. Rachel Dolezal and the anomaly of passing the other way

7. Rachel Dolezal’s ‘Passing’ Isn’t So Unusual

8. She didn’t just play the race card — she actually lived it!

9. The Delusions of Dolezal

10. As Rachel Dolezal Breaks Silence, a Roundtable Discussion on Race, Appropriation and Identity

11. Caitlin Jenner, Rachel Dolezal and the American Politics of Identity

12. Rachel Dolezal Case Leaves a Campus Bewildered and Some Scholars Disgusted

13. From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much

14. I am black, and Rachel Dolezal is not

15. WHO IS BLACK?

16. Rachel Dolezal and the Complex Politics of White Privilege

17. WHY RACHEL DOLEZAL ISN’T CAITLYN JENNER

18. I Love Being Black. Rachel Dolezal Does Not

19. Rachel Dolezal and Effa Manley

20. What we can’t afford to forget about Rachel Dolezal: A master class in white victimology

21. Rachel Dolezal and ‘authenticity’

22. Cases of Passing for Black Date Back More Than a Century

23. Dolezal’s advocacy should matter more than her ‘blackness’

24. Why black women feel so betrayed by Rachel Dolezal

25. On Privilege and the Monsters We Create

26. RACHEL DOLEZAL AND THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY

27. An Open Letter to Rachel Dolezal

28. Are you who you think you are?

29. A Social Death By Misadventure: Rachel Dolezal and the Manipulation of Blackness (Part 1)

30. The Surprising Story of Walter White and the NAACP

31. It’s Impossible to Lie About Your Race

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