FWIW, my undergrad (hybrid grad) endocrinology class covered sex determination in utero, and one of the things we learned is that the brain and body are feminized or masculinized separately. Thus, it seems possible for a small portion of the population (and roughly .1-.3% of the population is trans) to have a feminized brain but not a feminized body or vice versa and would account for the dysphoria that trans people report as well as the resolution of this dysphoria when they transition. Race isn’t like that. You can feel more at home in a certain culture for sure, but there’s no mapping in your brain for melatonin or hair texture or anything like that. Because the brain is feminized or masculinized via a different mechanim from the body during fetal development. it’s biologically feasible to have a feminized brain but a masculine body or vice versa, but that’s not the case for race/ethnicity.
" But unless this was for a course or exhibit where you were supposed to copy an art piece, why would she recreate someone else’s work and claim it as her own?"
She has recreated a compilation of other peoples lives as her own. She has lied about so many basic things, why would she draw the line at artistic integrity? If it was easier to copy someone else, why would she be ethical about that, in particular? Seems that if someone is a pathological liar, they would be comfortable lying about anything.
There’s only one race…the Daytona 500.
It’s odd that it took this long for someone to catch on to the art mimicry. Turner’s Slave Ship is pretty iconic and his statement about the turbulence of slavery (as shown in the painting) would be known to art professors at Howard. Maybe she was passing it as being somehow referential to today? Otherwise, what nerve to try to get away with something like that! But if the shoe fits…
For more investigation into the art, Google artpal.com and type “Dolezal” in the search bar to see some of her works. There is an artist’s statement that accompanies the pieces and you’ll be able to purchase framed prints, stretched canvas and even the art on a mug.
http://www.artpal.com/?i=12713-3
Art History wasn’t my strong suit in college but other posters may be able to provide some enlightening commentary on the artist’s oeuvre.
Edit - the “original” version of The Shape of Our Kind (inspired by J.M.W. Turner’s painting) is available for purchase and has been marked down to $5100 (from $7800).
True. True. I keep on giving her the benefit of the doubt! I was reading an article and for a moment I thought, “This poor woman. She’s clinging to an imagined identity. Maybe she just didn’t know…” and then some more walked up information comes along. It’s my inner self who believes everyone has a redeeming quality so there’s a push and pull.
It reminds me of the “art” made by Richard Prince which is simply blow up prints of other people’s instagram posts. Perfectly legal, and there are people out there willing to shell out $100,000 for a print.
One “subject” got back at him by printing out her image on the same canvas with the same printing process and mass selling them for $90.
@musicamusica; Jacob Van Who?
@moooop; as a history professor of mine once said, there are only three races in the world: the pentathlon, the decathlon and the marathon.
@Niquii77; “you been hoodwinked, led astray, bamboozled…sold a bill of goods!”
In a world where people can and do change gender, I have a hard time seeing how you can’t change your race identity.
The arguments I’ve seen in this thread don’t make any sense. Something about gender being “fluid”?
"In a world where people can and do change gender, I have a hard time seeing how you can’t change your race identity.
The arguments I’ve seen in this thread don’t make any sense. Something about gender being “fluid”
The way I look at it, is that you can change from a man to a woman, or vice versa, but you can’t change who your birth parents were. You can change your future, but you can’t change the past.
It’s not the changing, it’s the lying.
@busdriver11 Your chromosomes are your past and your future. I can tell if you are biologically a man or a woman by looking at them. I can’t do that with your race.
^^True, you can’t change your chromosomes, JustOneDad, but there seems to be far more than that involved in whether you are a man or a woman.
Which is why I say that if you can change your gender, in which you are proposing that there is “far more” involved, it would tend to indicate that changing your race would be easier.
Hopefully, dead white males are still studied.
Hopefully, dead white males are still studied.
did someone already mention this?- isn’t it hispanic on college applications if you identify with the culture but do not have to be hispanic by race?
“Hopefully, dead white males are still studied”
And hopefully, as more than just the oppressor.
Just a random thought… I have not turned on the TV or listened to the radio in a while… Did the news people finally learn to pronounce “Spokane” correctly? 
reads comment
scrunches eyebrows
listens to pronunciation
minds proceeds to be blown
But…but…Oh, my goodness. The more you know!