RadioOnFire.com - thrust back into the spotlight after she took to Instagram to announce her new memoir, In Full Color: Finding my Place in a Black and White World.
The bio for the book reads in part:
With In Full Color, Rachael 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 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.
The controversial book has already begun to create a firestorm on social media as critics are weary of Dolezal writing about discrimination "while living as a black woman" when she was born a white female. Others have expressed disappointment in Dolezal getting a book deal writing on this subject matter while actual black authors struggle to get published.
For those that are interested, the book is available for preorder on Amazon.
Source: complex.com
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