{"id":57327,"date":"2019-01-21T18:21:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57327"},"modified":"2019-01-21T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:21:27","slug":"inside-kamala-harriss-relationship-with-an-indian-american-community-eager-to-claim-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57327","title":{"rendered":"Inside Kamala Harris\u2019s relationship with an Indian-American community eager to claim her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/campaigns\/article223272545.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Inside Kamala Harris\u2019s relationship with an Indian-American community eager to claim her<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McClatchy: DC Bureau<\/a><br \/>\n2018-12-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katieglueck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Katie Glueck<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Political Correspondent<\/p>\n<style>.mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:40px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%}<\/style>\n<div class=\"mcclatchy-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/article149397594.html\/video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Indian-American publications write about her regularly. Her first name means \u201clotus\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanskrit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanskrit<\/a>. She takes pride in grinding her own Indian spices. And she has been known to reference slogans that were used by Indian independence fighters like her grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamala_Harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Devi Harris<\/a> runs for president, the Democratic senator is poised to be championed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian-Americans<\/a>, a constituency with significant representation in the donor community, growing numbers of political activists and candidates\u2014and a sizable presence in states that will play key roles in the Democratic primary, from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will change the game if she runs for president,\u201d said Anurag Varma, a Democratic donor who frequently supports Indian-American candidates and \u201cabsolutely\u201d would back Harris. \u201cShe will create a new game if she becomes president.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Harris, of California, is the daughter of Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India<\/a>, and Donald Harris, born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamaica<\/a>. The senator identifies as both African-American and South Asian-American, according to her <a href=\"http:\/\/harris.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate website<\/a>, which notes that she is the country\u2019s first South Asian-American senator\u2014 a background that opens doors with a diverse set of voters&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/campaigns\/article223272545.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Kamala Devi Harris runs for president, the Democratic senator is poised to be championed by Indian-Americans, a constituency with significant representation in the donor community, growing numbers of political activists and candidates\u2014and a sizable presence in states that will play key roles in the Democratic primary, from California to Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20,25],"tags":[455,28247,19041,29286,29285,29284],"class_list":["post-57327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-women","tag-california","tag-kamala-devi-harris","tag-kamala-harris","tag-katie-glueck","tag-mcclatchy","tag-mcclatchy-dc-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57328,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57327\/revisions\/57328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}