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the race discourse on Kamala is already very interesting for those of us who study multiraciality.
Barack was talked about as first Black, rather than first biracial candidate/POTUS and now Kamala is seemingly two people: a Black woman VP candidate AND an Asian woman candidate
Barack was talked about as first Black, rather than first biracial candidate/POTUS and now Kamala is seemingly two people: a Black woman VP candidate AND an Asian woman candidate
certainly, her gender coupled with the fact that she doesn’t have a Black spouse to “up” her Blackness “bonafides” and the fact that she is a “multiple minority” multiracial are going to make the way she’s talked about different.
what is standing out to me after less than a full 24 hours of her VP candidacy is that her Asianness is now a big part of her historic narrative when during the Dem primary all the Asian candidate attention was focused on Yang. I’d argue it’s because he’s the “right” Asian.
South Asians, particularly darker skinned ones, get treated very differently in US race hierarchy than lighter skinned/East Asians. I think that will certainly be laid bare in racialized attacks made on Kamala.
I’m also curious how the immigrant parent narrative will work.
I’m also curious how the immigrant parent narrative will work.
will Agent Orange resume his birther attack angle? will Kamala be accused of being secretly Muslim? what will they do w/ the fact that her father is a Marxist?
most importantly, how is one drop rule logic going to shape all of this — will she present herself as more Asian?
most importantly, how is one drop rule logic going to shape all of this — will she present herself as more Asian?
there’s been some research on politics and US multiracials, w/ whites tending to see them less positively than “monoracial” POC see them as a population: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419871003671929
this title continues to take me down every time btw: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/theres-no-one-as-irish-as-barack-obama-the-policy-and-politics-of-american-multiracialism/0C409487D140D2823FEE2ACF1D1E095C
however we don’t have a ton on US multiracials who are political candidates aside from all the stuff written about Barack (which is A LOT). one person to read right now is Danielle Lemi: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21565503.2017.1288144?scroll=top&needAccess=true
for my personal research agenda, I’m curious how Kamala will track among young multiracials and how they perceive her romantic relationship and family.
how any discussion of Kamala as multiracial as opposed to exclusively a Black woman inform political convos w/ potential dates
how any discussion of Kamala as multiracial as opposed to exclusively a Black woman inform political convos w/ potential dates
political environment, esp in Texas where I did my dissertation research, has these really important effects for our romantic lives right now.
got me all excited to work on my book!
got me all excited to work on my book!
I look forward to the Twitter story on her Jamaican heritage
honestly, where is Blasian Twitter? I keep thinking about how many multiracial Black and Asian folks I knew growing up as a military brat, in military towns... lots to think about with multiracial Asians and military occupation.
whereas Kamala doesn't have that history, right? her narrative is more firmly in the "child of immigrants" camp and also VERY California.
I have no real interest in this woman as a political candidate but as a research topic I am fascinated lol
I have no real interest in this woman as a political candidate but as a research topic I am fascinated lol
