Analysis: Kamala Harris forces us to look beyond Black and White
As happened during the 2008 campaign of Barack Obama, the only other Black person to appear on a major-party presidential ticket, there has been some debate about how to describe Harris’s identity.Even though Obama’s father was not a Black American, he had a White mother and thus fit into the popular perception of what it means to be biracial.
I talked with Morning about the ways in which Harris’s identities reinforce and challenge what many Americans think about race, both those who are excited about the demographic shifts that are shaking up the country and those who fear what those changes mean to their place in society.How does Harris challenge us to think beyond the old Black-White binary?
This is really a face of a new America that a lot of people haven’t really realized is there. A lot of time when we talk about biracial people, we often imagine people who are Black and White, like Obama, but the reality is different. There are lots of, all kinds of combinations and backgrounds like Kamala Harris certainly in place a like California. Also the fact that her Asian heritage is South Asian, not East Asian.
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