Reflections On Rachel Dolezal, White Privilege, And “America’s Headlong Progress”Posted in Audio, Media Archive, Passing, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2016-03-21 02:04Z by Steven |
Reflections On Rachel Dolezal, White Privilege, And “America’s Headlong Progress”
Reflections West
Montana Public Radio
2016-03-09
Tobin Shearer, Director of the African-American Studies Program; Associate Professor of History
University of Montana
W.E.B Du Bois in 1918
Cornelius Marion Battey (PD)
“For seven days in June 2015, Rachel Dolezal captured the news cycle,” writes University of Montana professor, Tobin Shearer, for “Reflections West.”
“Dolezal had led Spokane’s NAACP and taught Africana studies, but lost those positions after her parents outed her as a white person. Dolezal had presented herself as black for years.
She dropped out of the news cycle after the June 17 massacre of nine worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. In the aftermath of that hate-fueled attack, few wanted to hear about the tawdry details of Dolezal’s racial passing gone awry…
Listen to the story (00:04:59) here. Download the story here.