Civil-rights activist announces she is writing a book on race

Civil-rights activist Rachel Dolezal who made headlines after it was revealed she was white posing as black, said in a recent interview she has been signed to write a book about race.

The 37-year-old who identifies as a black woman despite being born white by birth says the book will be about people ‘caught between boundary lines of race or culture or ethnicity’

Dolezal told NBC talkshow Today on Tuesday that the book, which Entertainment Weekly reported had been signed by independent publisher BenBella Books, is about “this larger issue of if you don’t fit into one box and if you don’t stay there your whole life, being identified from birth as who you are – what does that look like?”

“Race didn’t create racism, but racism created race,” she told Today.

She also expressed her excitement to write the book, and to 'really get into addressing some of the issues that I’ve researched for many years,' and hopes to get back into teaching.

Dolezal identified as a black woman and was president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane, Washington, until her estranged biological parents revealed last year that her heritage is white.

She subsequently resigned from the NAACP and lost her position teaching Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University, while facing a wave of anger from African Americans.

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