{"id":58877,"date":"2019-09-17T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58877"},"modified":"2019-09-17T17:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T17:04:01","slug":"kamala-harris-grew-up-in-a-mostly-white-world-then-she-went-to-a-black-university-in-a-black-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58877","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris grew up in a mostly white world. Then she went to a black university in a black city."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris grew up in a mostly white world. Then she went to a black university in a black city.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2019-09-16<\/p>\n

Robin Givhan<\/strong><\/a>, Fashion critic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nFrom left: Karen Gibbs, Kamala Harris<\/a> and Valerie Pippen at Homecoming in 1986-1987. (Courtesy of Karen Gibbs)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When anyone challenges her racial identity, the presidential candidate points to her four years at Howard University<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kamala Harris<\/a> wanted to go to a black school. That\u2019s what black folks called Howard University<\/a> in the early 1980s when Harris was a teenager considering her future.<\/p>\n

Harris, she would say later, was seeking an experience wholly different from what she had long known. She\u2019d attended majority-white schools her entire life \u2014 from elementary school in Berkeley, Calif.<\/a>, to high school in Montreal<\/a>. Her parents\u2019 professional lives and their personal story were bound up in majority-white institutions. Her father, an economist from Jamaica, was teaching at Stanford University. Her mother, a cancer researcher from India<\/a>, had done her graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where the couple had met and fallen in love. And Harris\u2019s younger sister would eventually enroll at Stanford.<\/p>\n

Harris wanted to be surrounded by black students, black culture and black traditions at the crown jewel of historically black colleges and universities<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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

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