In Full Color (eBook)

Finding My Place in a Black and White World

Rachel Dolezal, Storms Reback (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
304 Seiten
BenBella Books, Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-944648-17-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;outed"e; Rachel Doležal as a white woman who had knowingly been "e;passing"e; 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.

Inhalt

Prologue

1. Delivered by Jesus
2. Escaping to Africa (in My Head)
3. Oatmeal
4. Drowned by Religion
5. Hustling to Make a Dollar
6. Chicken Head Baseball and Huckleberry Stains
7. Thirteen I
8. Adopting Ezra
9. Separate but Equal
10. Hair I
11. Million Man March
12. Belhaven College
13. Hair II
14. Adopting a New Dad I
15. Kevin and Howard
16. Emancipation
17. San Francisco
18. Thirteen II
19. Adopting a New Dad II
20. Malicious Harassment
21. Raising Black Boys in America
22. The Third Strike
23. Black Lives Matter
24. Lorenzo Hayes
25. Ambushed by Reporter
26. Unemployed
27. New York
28. Backlash
29. Survival Mode
30. Rebirth

Epilogue

Acknowledgments
About the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.3.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-944648-17-8 / 1944648178
• ISBN-13: 978-1-944648-17-6 / 9781944648176