Six White Female Scholars Have Posed As Nonwhite In Recent Years

Eh.

Dolezal's not a scholar. One of them was just on Twitter. 

I mean, the explanation is obvious: nonwhites are at an advantage in academia now. Contrary to progressive fairytales, academia isn't made of racism. If Smith is black and Jones is white and both are academicians, and their CVs are the same, Smith will get about twenty times more job offers than Jones. When I came out of grad school, the white women were getting about 20 times as many interviews as the white men--all the females but one got better gigs than any male. And women are much more common in philosophy than are blacks. 

   Also: being nonwhite is hip and being white is uncool.

   And grievance studies is all the rage.

   Anyway: no real mystery here.