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Is changing one's race a sign of mental health problems?

  • Written by Whitney Laster Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
imageRachel Dolezal

Rachel Dolezal was born to white parents and raised as a white child, but privately “transitioned” to a self-identified black woman after attending (and suing) the historically black Howard University. She first made headlines last year when she was outed as white by a local Spokane news reporter. She was in the news...

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