How Rachel Dolezal Forced us to Examine Who Gets to be Black

Abstract

Although she was born to two white parents, Rachel Dolezal claims that she is Black, a label she prefers to African-American. The Africana Studies adjunct instructor and now former president of Spokane’s NAACP local chapter has been living as a Black woman for at least a decade, but she was recently “outed†by her parents, who revealed details of Dolezal’s true identity on HuffPost Live.