A white scholar pretended to be black and Latina for years. This is modern minstrelsy
Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez and Yarimar Bonilla
Jessica Krug maintained her masquerade by appealing to the worst Hollywood stereotypes about people of color
August 2018
Can we choose our own identity?
Caitlyn Jenner is a trans woman, ‘asexual for now’; Rachel Dolezal identifies as black. Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?
April 2018
The Rachel Divide review – Netflix's Dolezal documentary is a troubling watch
A controversial figure is the subject of a thought-provoking yet problematic film that prioritizes a white woman’s feelings over the damage she has caused
March 2017
Rachel Dolezal’s pick-your-race policy works brilliantly – as long as you’re white
Claire Hynes
Dolezal’s idea that we all ‘write our own stories’ is easy for her to say. In reality, the racial fluidity she preaches is a one-way street
February 2017
Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologise and grovel’
Two years ago, she was a respected black rights activist and teacher. Then she was exposed as a white woman who had deceived almost everyone she knew. Why did she do it?
October 2016
Rachel Dolezal memoir to explore 'discrimination while living as black'
In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World will chart her path from a child of white evangelical parents to an activist who identifies as black
April 2016
Rachel Dolezal signs publishing deal to write book on race
Civil-rights activist who made headlines last year after her white heritage was exposed says the book will be about people ‘caught between boundary lines of race or culture or ethnicity’
December 2015
G2 quiz of 2015
The Lost in Showbiz quiz of 2015
The song of the year urged us to let it flow. Instead, we pushed back
Brigid Delaney
Brief letters
Where Jimmy Hill isn’t so hi-Viz
Confusion where a person’s colour is concerned
Rachel Dolezal could be black in Britain
The G2 interview
Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn't identifying as black to upset people. I was being me'
October 2015
Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and the pitfalls of talking politics in interviews
Tshepo Mokoena
Rihanna calls Rachel Dolezal 'a bit of a hero'
July 2015
Rachel Dolezal: the world may be confused about who I am, but I'm not
‘I didn’t deceive anybody,’ the former NAACP leader said in an interview, adding: ‘If people feel misled … that’s more due to their definition and construct of race’
June 2015
From Ali G to Rachel Dolezal: the colourful history of blacking up
Rachel Dolezal or Dylann Roof: who is bigger news, and why?
Sol Bellear
Rachel Dolezal under pressure to quit police ombudsman board
Surely we can forgive Rachel Dolezal her racial impersonation
