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In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World Hardcover – March 28, 2017

by Rachel Dolezal (Author), Storms Reback (Author)

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A lot of people have made up their minds about Rachel Doležal. But none of them know her real story.

In June 2015, the media “outed” Rachel Doležal as a white woman who had knowingly been “passing” as Black. When asked if she were African American during an interview about the hate crimes directed at her and her family, she hesitated before ending the interview and walking away. Some interpreted her reluctance to respond and hasty departure as dishonesty, while others assumed she lacked a reasonable explanation for the almost unprecedented way she identified herself.

What determines your race? Is it your DNA? The community in which you were raised? The way others see you or the way you see yourself?

With In Full Color, Rachel 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 identifies as Black. Along the way, she recounts 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, DC, and the experiences that have shaped her along the way.

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“Finally, Rachel Doležal in her own voice and words shares her intriguing account and path of conscious self-definition, embodied in a life of activism. . . . Rachel forces us all to question what we have come to accept until now.”
—Bishop Clyde N.S. Ramalaine, author of Preach a Storm, Live a Tornado

"Rachel Dolezal’s early life memoir is not simply a narrative of radical activism. . . . It serves to critique the cultural straightjacket of traditionalist white ‘Protestant work ethic’ society. At this moment of alt-right reactionism, it punctures the fake nostalgia for an imagined pre-multiculturalism era of supposed purity and authenticity.”
—Gavin Lewis, Black British writer and academic

“The storm of vitriol Rachel received in the national spotlight was as cruel as it was undeserved. Her deep compassion for others shines through every chapter of her life and has clearly motivated her truly outstanding advocacy work.”

—Gerald Hankerson, president of the NAACP Alaska Oregon Washington State Area

“It’s absolutely necessary to know the whole story in order to understand the extraordinary racial journey that Rachel Doležal has made.”

—Ann Morning, associate professor of sociology at New York University and author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference

About the Author

Rachel Doležal holds an MFA from Howard University. Her scholarly research focus is the intersection of race, gender, and class in the contemporary Black diaspora, with a specific emphasis on Black women in visual culture. She is a licensed Intercultural Competency & Diversity Trainer, dedicated to racial and social justice activism. She has worked as an instructor at North Idaho College and Eastern Washington University, where she also served as Advisor for the schools’ Black Student Unions, as well as Whitworth University, and has guest lectured at Spokane Community College, University of Idaho, Gonzaga University, and Washington State University.

Doležal began her activism in Mississippi, where she advocated for equal rights and partnered with community developers, tutoring grade-school children in Black history and art and pioneering African American history courses at a predominantly white university. She is the former Director of Education at the Human Rights Education Institute in Idaho and has served as a consultant for human rights education and inclusivity in regional public schools. She recently led the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission to promote police accountability and justice in law enforcement in Spokane, Washington, and was the President of the Spokane Chapter of the NAACP. She is the devoted mother of three sons.

Storms Reback is the author of three books All In: The (Almost) Entirely True History of the World Series of Poker, Farha on Omaha: Expert Strategy for Beating Cash Games and Tournaments, and Ship It Holla Ballas!: How a Bunch of 19-Year-Old College Dropouts Used the Internet to Become Poker’s Loudest, Craziest, and Richest Crew. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and children.

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Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: BenBella Books (March 28, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 194464816X
ISBN-13: 978-1944648169
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.2 x 9.1 inches
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Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (133 customer reviews)
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A genuine fighter

ByDanon June 21, 2017

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Do you believe that an innocent little girl at age 10 started carving a fraudulent life at that age? I only saw crualty from both Black and White people towards Rachel. You will read things that are not comfortable for both sides. You will not find anything you have known. This is Rachel. It is hard to understand. She is unique, she is genuine, that is who she is, that is how she feels; she did not betray herself all along. She had proven through all her academic work , all her community work, and all her activism what she stands for and believes in. She deserve better, particularly from the Black Community. She is a real sister. She is a real fighter.

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True to her social mystique, Rachel's perspective is truly ...

ByTyleron June 16, 2017

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True to her social mystique, Rachel's perspective is truly fascinating. I think our specie will find much more respect for her experience and her self-expression in near-future generations— if not already by Gen Z (Boomlets). Thank you, Rachel.

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just like many people

ByBarb Weberon July 3, 2017

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I was interested, just like many people, to read Rachel's story. I found the book to be very well written, and interesting.

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Save your money.

ByBarbara S.on March 24, 2017

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Save your money. I stopped reading when she wrote that doing her household chores as a child was the same as “the institution of chattel slavery in America” making her an indentured servant and this caused her to endure the same experience as black slaves. I stpped reading so I don't know is she ever addressed her stories about being discriminated against that were proven false...

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seems so stupid because no crime was committed

ByAlex Alexanderon April 21, 2017

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"Malcolm X warned us about the way media can form our opinions and perspective on anything, including ourselves. The shaming of this woman only benefits the hurt feelings of the Caucasians who has lived for generations teaching and thinking 'Whiteness' is the ONLY thing to aspire to be and therefore the 'Standard' of beauty and intellect. Demonizing her,to me,seems so stupid because no crime was committed. And why are WE of all people taking the cue from the same media that's the major source of negative imaging, criminalization and demonization of our Black men, women and children to the point were everyone feels it is acceptable to savagely abuse and even kill us?? Anyone familiar with The Human Genome Project, a research organization that has concluded all humanity originated from Africa, knows she is, as well as the rest of mankind, is in all actuality African! The same media that has no problem with a Bruce Jenner becoming a Caitlin should not trick us into following their narrative of ridicule of someone who openly loves Blackness! After all, are we not their parents? Loving your origins is natural, calming and sane! Racism says it's NOT sane to love Blackness. At least she is honest and not masking her love by being envious and twisting it into hate that is promoted and accepted in our judicial system, penal system, etc. So, why are we taking the perspective by White supremacists in ascribing negativity to someone appreciating and loving ....Us.... in TOTAL. Think about it... Did she rob the NAACP? No. (*apparently it was a voluntary position aka no money) Did she take another woman's husband? No. I've bought a copy! "Race is a social construct" Mythology to favor rich Caucasians by fooling poor Caucasians into thinking their poverty is temporary and must keep voting for things that hurt themselves without care while thinking there is this off chance they will become among the 1% of the already rich Caucasians. Sorry, hat racial lottery is rigged too! Well, it's out NOW! Rachel Dolezal's autobiography titled: "In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World." On the many ways and times from childhood on how she felt uncomfortable in her skin and felt she in all actuality is Black but trapped in the wrong ethnicity.

I read a lot of the comments and LOW ratings of her UNRELEASED book . Not to mention the gifs (*as of 3-29-17) But that's my perspective. The resentment is because she has the ability to revert back to her former looks at any time. But her heart seems to reject it and suffer the contempt from media, Caucasians and the Black community. In short , if she was just an imposter she'd toss off this 'facade' and blend back into the safer side of existence. Just my 2 c.

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One Star

ByAmazon Customeron July 5, 2017

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Not impressed

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This is book does not belong under sociology.

ByLarissa Loydon April 18, 2017

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As long as you are reading this to get her side of the story and not for any deeper meaning, its a so-so book. It does have some black history peppered through it, but nothing beyond what I learned in an American History class in college.

While I do sympathize with her evangelical upbringing, it is not the same experience as what poc go through in their lives. Dolezal is missing the duel awareness that W.E.B DuBois speaks of along with the inability to escape the either/or thinking associated with those raised evangelical. She seems to have constructed this identity to avoid dealing with her white guilt. This is exhibited by the opportunities she had to dispel stereotypes about poc and does not take to avoid having to say she is white. She does not understand basic sociological concepts either. I do find it a shame that her human rights work has been wiped away by this media circus. The world is short those who have the courage to stand up for others.

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This woman is insane. Her views are self indulgent fantasy based on fantasized realities.

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Got this book from the library because I was curious ...

Got this book from the library because I was curious about Rachel Dolezal's life. It was very confusing to me so I figured why not read up on it. It's less than 300 pages long.Read more

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Calculated Cultural Appropriation

Really I should have left the DRC sit where it was, which was Net Galley, but thank you just the same to them and BenBella Books.Read more

Published 10 days ago by SeattleBookMama

Idiocy

She proves, once again, the idiocy of the feminist left. More of their "identity is just a social construct" horse manure. She's white. Get over it. STFU, Rachel.

Published 14 days ago by Russell

The Book of Lies.

I'm hate reading this now. I am currently on chapter 8 of a book that goes all over the place, except to the truth. I'm reading it on my show, so other people don't have to.

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IN FULL COLOR

Book arrived on time and in good shape. Racial Escapism exists on both sides of the Black-White Racial Divide in America.Read more

Published 1 month ago by William A. James

Should be in the mental health section.

What a complete crock of crap.

Published 1 month ago by Derry Day

Waste of time and money

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A ca$h Grab by a lying lady

A way for an unemployable liar to make money... don't waste yours!

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