{"id":57831,"date":"2019-03-29T02:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57831"},"modified":"2019-03-29T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:28:19","slug":"a-political-awakening-how-howard-university-shaped-kamala-harris-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57831","title":{"rendered":"A political awakening: How Howard University shaped Kamala Harris\u2019 identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

A political awakening: How Howard University shaped Kamala Harris\u2019 identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n2019-03-19<\/p>\n

Evan Halper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nKamala Harris<\/a>, right, protests South African apartheid<\/a> with classmate Gwen Whitfield<\/a> on the National Mall<\/a> in November 1982. (Photo courtesy of Kamala Harris)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The war on drugs<\/a> had erupted, apartheid<\/a> was raging, Jesse Jackson<\/a> would soon make the campus a staging ground for his inaugural presidential bid. Running for student office in 1982 at Howard University<\/a> \u2014 the school that nurtured Thurgood Marshall<\/a>, Toni Morrison<\/a> and Stokely Carmichael<\/a> \u2014 was no joke.<\/p>\n

Sen. Kamala Harris<\/a> (D-Calif.) has been known to break the ice with voters by proclaiming the freshman-year campaign in which she won a seat on the Liberal Arts Student Council her toughest political race. Those who were at the university with her are not so sure she is kidding.<\/p>\n

It was at Howard that the senator\u2019s political identity began to take shape. Thirty-three years after she graduated in 1986, the university in the nation\u2019s capital<\/a>, one of the country\u2019s most prominent historically black institutions<\/a>, also serves as a touchstone in a campaign in which political opponents have questioned the authenticity of her black identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reference often my days at Howard to help people understand they should not make assumptions about who black people are,\u201d Harris said in a recent interview…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was at Howard that the senator\u2019s political identity began to take shape. Thirty-three years after she graduated in 1986, the university in the nation\u2019s capital, one of the country\u2019s most prominent historically black institutions, also serves as a touchstone in a campaign in which political opponents have questioned the authenticity of her black identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,26,20,25],"tags":[29659,7408,19040,28247,19041,3909,29384,28244,13272],"class_list":["post-57831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-women","tag-evan-halper","tag-howard-university","tag-kamala-d-harris","tag-kamala-devi-harris","tag-kamala-harris","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-shyamala-gopalan","tag-shyamala-gopalan-harris","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57831","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=57831"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57842,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57831\/revisions\/57842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}