Commentary Kamala Harris had a choice, being the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants. On the campaign trail in the 2020 election cycle, she often presented herself as black—emphasizing her studies at the historically black Howard University and saying to Joe Biden in the Democratic Primary debates: “My neighbor, her parents told her she couldn’t play with us because we were black.” When she was selected as Biden’s vice president, she ran a media campaign that emphasized her Asian-American roots. But when directly questioned about her personal identity during an interview, she said “I am who I am.” She described herself simply as “an American,” according to The Washington Post. Harris clearly sought to not fit into just one box. Multiracial Americans reveal the fungibility of a concept such as race. In a 2018 study on multiracialism, psychologist Jacqueline Chen found that “there is little consensus in the specific minority …
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