Rachel Dolezal To Release Book Entitled 'In Full Color'
By Isha Thorpe
October 31, 2016
We wish this was a Halloween trick, but unfortunately it's not. Rachel Dolezal is coming out with a memoir entitled In Full Color: Finding My Place In A Black And White World and it's set to be released March 2017.
Accordin to Amazon's description, the book will give people insight on a part of Dolezal that we have no idea about. The literary work's mission is to detail the journey that Dolezal went through to become the "black" woman she is today.
The description reads:
Rachael Doležal describes the path that led her from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black. Along the way, she’ll discuss the deep emotional bond she formed with her four adopted black siblings, the sense of belonging she felt while living in black communities in Jackson, Mississippi and Washington, D.C., and the discrimination she’s suffered while living as a black woman.
Her story is nuanced and complex, and in the process of telling it, she forces us to consider race in an entirely new light—not as a biological imperative, but as a function of the experiences we have, the culture we embrace, and, ultimately, the identity we choose.
Since the book's release date has been reported, many have unapologetically been slamming it. Read some reactions about In Full Color below.
Black women when Rachel Dolezal writes about "the discrimination she’s suffered while living as a black woman" in her upcoming book pic.twitter.com/28KifWF7Vg
— Dorothy N. Charles (@dn_charles) October 30, 2016
The cover is her usual blackface. My question: Why does Rachel Dolezal even get a book deal? https://t.co/95Ah3qWUED
— Liz Dwyer (@losangelista) October 31, 2016
Black authors are under-represented in publishing but Rachel Dolezal gets 5, maybe 6 figures for literary blackface.
— jack monroe (@MxJackMonroe) October 29, 2016
2016 is the worst.
Rachel Dolezal got a book deal about being black when black authors struggle to get published. I cannot. pic.twitter.com/1COTDD434N
— marcus. 🇧🇧 (@marcusjdl) October 29, 2016
Photo: Instagram/racheladolezal