Although there was an outpouring of celebration and praise for Sen. Harris from young South Asians after Joe Biden’s announcement, some drew attention to difficult truths her nomination would force the community to confront.
“Why are our communities rallying behind her now?” she said. “I can’t help but feel that her identity as a Black woman has suddenly become more palatable precisely because she is within reach of this high office. And that’s exactly how model minority discourse works.”Harris has not necessarily been quiet about her South Asian identity — she has spoken before about the inspiration she drew from her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who immigrated to the U.S.
According to Pawha, asking Harris to emphasize her Indian roots over her Black ones is to ignore her lived experiences in the U.S. The senator wrote in her 2019 book “The Truths We Hold” that though her mother was an Indian woman, she “understood very well that she was raising two Black daughters.” When I write about albums of exclusion it is real because Asian people often exclude Black people even within their own families, their own children and grandchildren. These stories of anti-Blackness are within my family and many other Afro-Asian families across the world 🌍.“It’s almost like people are talking about her as two separate women,” Thorat said. “You have Kamala who’s a Black woman and Kamala who’s a South Asian. And she’s not two separate people.
These two structures, which though legally abolished still influence Indian culture, perpetuating colorism by rewarding people who have lighter skin.
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