Rethinking Rachel Doležal and Transracial Theory

Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: The Current State of (Trans)racial Discourse
	Introduction
	Puzzle Cases
	What We Talk about When We Talk about Race
	What the Responses to Rachel Doležal Reveal about Our Racial Beliefs
	How Earlier Cases of White-to-Black Racial Identification Inform Our Discussion of Doležal
	How Political Orientation is Related to Racial Identification
	What Might Limit or Legitimate Black Identity
	Works Cited
Chapter 2: Pathways for Further Developing (Trans)racial Discourse
	Preamble
	Why “Passing” Is Problematic
	Why We Should Be Wary of Social Conservatism
	Why We Need to Examine Individual vs. Collective Identity and Self-Identification
	Why We Need to Consider Transgender Identity and Learn from the Hypatia Crisis
	Why Ideal/Non-Ideal Theory Might Help
	Why We Should Avoid Certain Ways of Thinking
	Conclusion: Where We Go from Here
	Works Cited
Index