{"id":43607,"date":"2015-10-30T00:24:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T00:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43607"},"modified":"2015-10-30T00:54:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T00:54:20","slug":"rachel-dolezal-alice-jones-nipples-the-rhinelander-fortune-and-racist-white-fire-fighters-who-tried-to-pass-for-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43607","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dolezal, Alice Jones’ Nipples, the Rhinelander Fortune, and Racist White Fire Fighters Who Tried to Pass for ‘Black’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Dolezal, Alice Jones’ Nipples, the Rhinelander Fortune, and Racist White Fire Fighters Who Tried to Pass for ‘Black’<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Indomitable: The Online Blog of Essayist and Cultural Critic Chauncey DeVega<\/a>
\n2015-06-17<\/p>\n

Chauncey DeVega<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAlice Beatrice Jones and Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander<\/a> of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander<\/em> (1924).<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I want to extend a sincere thanks to all of the kind folks who donated so far. I have about 10 more “thank you” emails to go. I am very close to the goal for the fundraiser. We have stalled today and hopefully if a few folks thrown in some supportive monies, I can pull in the begging bowl for another six months…<\/p>\n

…I am not very kind to Rachel Dolezal<\/a>. I chose to speak the truth about her racial con game and made my best effort to provide some context for her most offensive act of racial tourism.<\/p>\n

Race may be a “social construct”. But the colorline–and who is considered “white” and those considered “non-white” in the United States has a deep, long, and ugly history. Those boundaries have been policed by the law, enforced by violence, and as Ian Haney Lopez<\/a> notes in the brilliant book White by Law<\/a><\/em> (another complement read is Cheryl Harris’s<\/a> widely cited 2001 Harvard Law Review<\/em> article Whiteness as Property<\/a>“) white racial group membership is a type of property with economic value that has been widely litigated in America’s courtrooms.<\/p>\n

While too much energy has already been spent on the Rachel Dolezal racial tragicomedy, one of the most important aspects of “passing<\/a>” and its many variants (white to black; black to white; brown to black; black to brown; white to something else; Martian to human)–the relationship between race and the law–has been little commented upon by the mainstream pundit classes…<\/p>\n

Legal scholar Randall Kennedy’s<\/a> 2001 Ohio Law Review<\/em> article “Racial Passing<\/a>” is an essential and highly informative survey of the law and racial passing in the United States.<\/p>\n

It is wonderful writing that contains moments of great wit and storytelling.<\/p>\n

Here is a great gem (of despicable behavior) about a scandalous case among turn of the 20th century New York City high society types<\/a> in which the black body, intimate knowledge, and the color of a woman’s nipples, were introduced as a type of evidence “proving” racial group membership:…<\/p>\n

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

Rachel Dolezal, Alice Jones’ Nipples, the Rhinelander Fortune, and Racist White Fire Fighters Who Tried to Pass for ‘Black’ Indomitable: The Online Blog of Essayist and Cultural Critic Chauncey DeVega 2015-06-17 Chauncey DeVega Alice Beatrice Jones and Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (1924). I want to extend a sincere thanks to all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,6462,20],"tags":[1153,14697,10174,21703,1154,20241,1445],"class_list":["post-43607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-alice-beatrice-jones","tag-alice-jones-rhinelander","tag-chauncey-devega","tag-indomitable-the-online-blog-of-essayist-and-cultural-critic-chauncey-devega","tag-leonard-kip-rhinelander","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-rhinelander-v-rhinelander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43607","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=43607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43612,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43607\/revisions\/43612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}