{"id":57833,"date":"2019-03-29T02:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57833"},"modified":"2019-03-29T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:03:13","slug":"my-mother-understood-she-was-raising-two-black-children-to-be-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57833","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy mother understood she was raising two black children to be black women.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMy mother understood she was raising two black children to be black women,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamala_Harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Kamala] Harris<\/a> said in the interview, a line she has often used to settle questions on the subject. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shyamala_Gopalan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shyamala Gopalan Harris<\/a> encouraged her daughter to go to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_University\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Howard [University]<\/a>, a school her mother knew well, having guest lectured there and having friends on the faculty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was nothing unnatural or in conflict about it at all,\u201d Harris said. \u201cThere were a lot of kids at Howard who had a background where one parent was maybe from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippines<\/a> and the other might be from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nairobi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nairobi<\/a>,\u201d she added. \u201cHoward encompasses the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_diaspora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[African] diaspora<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Evan Halper, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A political awakening: How Howard University shaped Kamala Harris\u2019 identity<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em>, March 19, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-kamala-harris-howard-university-20190319-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-kamala-harris-howard-university-20190319-story.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy mother understood she was raising two black children to be black women,\u201d [Kamala] Harris said in the interview, a line she has often used to settle questions on the subject. Shyamala Gopalan Harris encouraged her daughter to go to Howard [University], a school her mother knew well, having guest lectured there and having friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29659,7408,19040,28247,19041,3909,29384,28244,13272],"class_list":["post-57833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","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\/57833","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=57833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57838,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57833\/revisions\/57838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}