{"id":52901,"date":"2017-03-25T15:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T15:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52901"},"modified":"2017-03-25T15:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T15:41:58","slug":"rachel-dolezal-struggling-after-racial-identity-scandal-in-spokane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52901","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dolezal struggling after racial-identity scandal in Spokane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Dolezal struggling after racial-identity scandal in Spokane<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Seattle Times<\/a>
\n2017-03-24<\/p>\n

Nicholas K. Geranios<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nIn this March 20, 2017 photo, Rachel Dolezal<\/a> poses for a photo with her son, Langston in the bureau of the Associated Press in Spokane, Wash<\/a>. Dolezal, who has legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, rose to prominence as a black civil rights leader, but then lost her job when her parents exposed her as being white and is now struggling to make a living. (AP Photo\/Nicholas K. Geranios<\/a>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cI was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar,\u201d says Rachel Dolezal, who has been unable to find steady work since she was outed as a white woman in media reports. Dolezal had rose to prominence as a black civil-rights leader in Spokane<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SPOKANE<\/a> \u2014 A woman who rose to prominence as a black civil-rights leader then lost her job when her parents exposed her as white is struggling to make a living these days.<\/p>\n

Rachel Dolezal said she has been unable to find steady work in the nearly two years since she was outed as a white woman in media reports, and she is uncertain about her future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar,\u201d Dolezal, 40, told The Associated Press this week. \u201cI think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n

She still identifies as black, and looks black, despite being \u201cCaucasian biologically.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople didn\u2019t seem able to consider that maybe both were true,\u201d she said. \u201cOK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic black identity.”…<\/p>\n

…Dolezal has written a book about her ordeal titled “In Full Color<\/a>.” It’s scheduled to be published next week.<\/p>\n

Last year, Dolezal legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, a West African moniker that means “gift from the gods.” She made the change in part to give herself a better chance of landing work from employers who might not be interested in hiring Rachel Dolezal, a name she still intends to use as her public persona…<\/p>\n

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