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One of the things that R3 was known for were our collection of Readers. When a major event happens, R3 collects reflections and opinions that examine the event through the lens of religion; highlighting the use of rhetoric and the construction of race. Many have used these as sites for research and study and we will continue to offer our Readers.
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Rachel Dolezal caused quite a stir when she, as a white woman, self-identified as “Black.” Her announcement caused many in the media to again bring up questions of race, identity, and blackness. Just who gets to identify as black? Here at R3, we collected some of the opinions and essays on this subject. If you see one that needs to be on our list, please share it with us on Facebook or Twitter. If you would like to submit your own piece, just email it to us at [email protected]
1. #RachelDolezal and Misconstrued Privilege
2. Rachel Dolezal Is A Fraud & We Are Wasting Time Trying To Understand Her
3. The Outing of Rachel Dolezal and American Anxiety with Race
4. Questions Matt Lauer should have asked Rachel Dolezal
5. How Rachel Dolezal Forced Us to Examine Who Gets to Be Black
6. Rachel Dolezal and the anomaly of passing the other way
7. Rachel Dolezal’s ‘Passing’ Isn’t So Unusual
8. She didn’t just play the race card — she actually lived it!
10. As Rachel Dolezal Breaks Silence, a Roundtable Discussion on Race, Appropriation and Identity
11. Caitlin Jenner, Rachel Dolezal and the American Politics of Identity
12. Rachel Dolezal Case Leaves a Campus Bewildered and Some Scholars Disgusted
13. From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
14. I am black, and Rachel Dolezal is not
15. WHO IS BLACK?
16. Rachel Dolezal and the Complex Politics of White Privilege
17. WHY RACHEL DOLEZAL ISN’T CAITLYN JENNER
18. I Love Being Black. Rachel Dolezal Does Not
19. Rachel Dolezal and Effa Manley
20. What we can’t afford to forget about Rachel Dolezal: A master class in white victimology
21. Rachel Dolezal and ‘authenticity’
22. Cases of Passing for Black Date Back More Than a Century
23. Dolezal’s advocacy should matter more than her ‘blackness’
24. Why black women feel so betrayed by Rachel Dolezal
25. On Privilege and the Monsters We Create
26. RACHEL DOLEZAL AND THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY
27. An Open Letter to Rachel Dolezal
28. Are you who you think you are?
29. A Social Death By Misadventure: Rachel Dolezal and the Manipulation of Blackness (Part 1)
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