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Former 'black' NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal is an art plagiarist too?

This is one of those tweets that we initially thought couldn’t be true; someone was just digging for more dirt on transracial academic Rachel Dolezal and misinterpreted an innocent mistake. But no — tweeter Jolie Adams has convincingly outed Dolezal as a plagiarist as well.

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For sure, Dolezal, who allegedly holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Howard University, seems to have heavily based her painting “The Shape of Our Kind” on J.M.W. Turner’s “The Slave Ship.”

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There must be an explanation. Surely it’s a deliberate copy that was part of her art education.

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Offered for sale? As Adams has found out, Dolezal is selling “her” painting “The Shape of Our Kind” on the site ArtPal, where you can snag the original painting for $5,100 or a coffee mug for $14.

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Yep. That’s what makes this case so interesting. Remember fake Native American Ward Churchill, once a celebrated professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder? Churchill plagiarized a large number of authentic Native American artworks and was blocked from selling art marketed as “Indian art” under a federal law in 1990. A committee at the university found he had also copied at least three written works and claimed them as his own.

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The really scary revelation: in her ArtPal biography, Dolezal reveals her “interest in the medical field” and says she “has begun Pre-Medical studies, working toward an MD and a residency in trauma surgery.” How is she going to fake that?

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Related:

Native American writer Sherman Alexie on Rachel Dolezal: ‘Ain’t nothing new’ to us

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