{"id":41836,"date":"2015-07-21T02:29:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T02:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41836"},"modified":"2015-07-26T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T14:55:10","slug":"41836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41836","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dolezal\u2019s True Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Dolezal\u2019s True Lies<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Vanity Fair<\/a>
\n2015-07-19<\/p>\n

Allison Samuels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Justin Bishop<\/strong><\/a>, Photography<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph by Justin Bishop<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n

For a time this summer, it seemed all anyone could talk about was the N.A.A.C.P.<\/a> chapter president whose parents had \u201couted\u201d her as white. The tornado of public attention has since moved on, but Rachel Dolezal<\/a> still has to live with her choices\u2014and still refuses to back down.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s safe to say that Rachel Dolezal never thought much about the endgame. You can see it on her face in the local-TV news video\u2014the one so potently viral it transformed her from regional curiosity to global punch line in the span of 48 hours in mid-June. It is precisely the look of a white woman who tanned for a darker hue, who showcased a constant rotation of elaborately designed African American hairstyles, and who otherwise lived her life as a black woman<\/a>, being asked if she is indeed African American.<\/p>\n

It is the look of a cover blown…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rachel Dolezal\u2019s True Lies Vanity Fair 2015-07-19 Allison Samuels Justin Bishop, Photography Photograph by Justin Bishop. For a time this summer, it seemed all anyone could talk about was the N.A.A.C.P. chapter president whose parents had \u201couted\u201d her as white. The tornado of public attention has since moved on, but Rachel Dolezal still has to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13743,8,6462,20],"tags":[20482,20481,899,2708,20257,20241,306],"class_list":["post-41836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-allison-samuels","tag-justin-bishop","tag-naacp","tag-national-association-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-vanity-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41967,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41836\/revisions\/41967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}