Rachel Dolezal’s Not Alone: More People Lying About Their Race
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Meg Butler
Raquel Welch
The 1960s screen siren was actually born Jo Raquel Tejada. But when she arrived in Hollywood, film execs urged her to lighten her skin and hair. In her memoir Beyond the Cleavage, Welch said that pretending to be white gave her an identity crisis. “I had no Latin friends,” Welch said before returning to Bolivia to learn more about her heritage.
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