In 2015, university lecturer Rachel Dolezal was outed for lying about her race and ancestry.
For most of her life, she had identified as an African-American woman, tanning her skin and styling her hair in dreadlocks.
But she was disgraced out of her position when her birth parents came out to say that she was in fact caucasian – with two white parents.
She later owned up to it, but claimed that she felt black. She was widely criticized in the black community for ‘culture appropriation’.
It was made more shocking because she had rose to become a chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Right now, however, she has legally changed her name to fit her narrative. She now goes by the Igbo name Nkechi (from Nigeria) and the surname Diallo 9from Guinea).
In the months following her notoriety, she has written a memoir where she discusses how she was born white but chose to see herself as black. It’s not clear yet if she’ll publish in her old or new name.
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