{"id":52163,"date":"2017-03-07T03:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52163"},"modified":"2017-03-07T03:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:33:40","slug":"why-rachel-dolezal-can-never-be-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52163","title":{"rendered":"Why Rachel Dolezal Can Never Be Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Rachel Dolezal Can Never Be Black<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed<\/a>
\nNational Public Radio<\/a>
\n2017-03-03<\/p>\n

Denene Millner<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nRachel Dolezal<\/a> stepped down from her post as the leader of the Spokane, Wash<\/a>., chapter of the NAACP<\/a> in 2015 amid criticism that she was passing herself off as black<\/a>.
\nNicholas K. Geranios\/AP<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Rachel Dolezal<\/a> just won\u2019t let it go.<\/p>\n

The white civil rights activist and former NAACP<\/a> leader outed by her parents in 2015 for passing herself off as black<\/a> is making the rounds with news that she is living on food stamps, a month away from homelessness, can\u2019t find a job and, perhaps most shockingly, has legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo.<\/p>\n

News of Dolezal\u2019s precarious living conditions and new name \u2014 Nkechi is the Igbo<\/a> word for \u201cgift of God,\u201d with roots in Nigeria<\/a>, and Diallo means \u201cbold\u201d in Fulani<\/a>, a word that can be traced to both Guinea<\/a> and Senegal<\/a> \u2014 comes, not surprisingly, just weeks before her new memoir, In Full Color<\/em><\/a>, heads to bookstores…<\/p>\n

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

Rachel Dolezal just won\u2019t let it go.<\/p>\n

The white civil rights activist and former NAACP leader outed by her parents in 2015 for passing herself off as black is making the rounds with news that she is living on food stamps, a month away from homelessness, can\u2019t find a job and, perhaps most shockingly, has legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6462,20],"tags":[14788,26363,2309,26364,2833,20241],"class_list":["post-52163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-code-switch","tag-denene-millner","tag-national-public-radio","tag-nkechi-amare-diallo","tag-npr","tag-rachel-dolezal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52163","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=52163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52166,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52163\/revisions\/52166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}