Kamala Harris

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• SOURCE: The Lily
  2/9/2021
  

  Southern Baptist Leaders Called Kamala Harris a ‘Jezebel.’ That’s not just Insulting, it’s Dangerous, Experts Say

  Religious Studies scholar Jessica Johnson says that the "Jezebel" trope used against Harris connects suspicion of women's power, old southern stereotypes of Black women as morally deficient, and present-day White Christian Nationalism.

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  2/8/2021
  

  Vice President Kamala Harris Could Kill the Filibuster Herself

  Columnist Hayes Brown looks at Kamala Harris's tiebreaking role in the context of the changing prestige and power of vice presidents from John Adams to Mike Pence. 

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• 1/22/2021
  

  Kamala Harris and the Modern Vice Presidency

  by Richard Moe

  Kamala Harris seems poised to exert influence over policy and legislation as vice president. In this sense, she will carry forward the evolution of the office, according to a former vice presidential chief of staff who contributed to the development of the "modern vice presidency." 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  12/8/2020
  

  Kamala Harris Will Play Major Role As Vice President, Historian Says

  Historian Julian Zelizer suggests Kamala Harris will make history not just because of her ethnic identity but because of her likely considerable involvement in White House policymaking. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/18/2020
  

  Patsy Takemoto Mink Blazed The Trail For Kamala Harris – Not Susan B. Anthony

  by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

  Patsy Takemoto Mink, elected in 1972 as the first woman of color in Congress, deserves recognition as a pioneering advocate for gender equity and the rights of Americans Caribbean and Pacific territories, and for preparing a path for Kamala Harris's election as Vice President. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  11/10/2020
  

  Kamala Harris Shows Women Can Thrive In Politics Doing Things Their Own Way

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Kamala Harris's candidacy shows a new path for women in public life: being judged as an autonomous human being, rather than as a wife or mother. This will be a radical change if it sticks. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/8//2020
  

  The Meaning of Kamala Harris: The Woman who will Break New Ground as Vice-President

  Kamala Harris will be the first woman and woman of color to hold the vice presidency. Her political past offers a complicated picture of the kinds of policies she's likely to advance in that role. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  

  Historically Black Colleges and Universities are Remaking American Politics

  by Crystal R. Sanders

  The 2020 presidential election has debunked the myth that historically Black colleges do not prepare students to work in white-dominated institutions, and demonstrated that HBCUs have prepared their alumni to change the world one precinct, one county and one state at a time.

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• SOURCE: WAMU
  11/7/2020
  

  ‘Game-Changer’: Kamala Harris Makes History As Next Vice President

  Historian Manisha Sinha contends that Kamala Harris's ascent to the vice presidency helps to make the case for America as an interracial democracy of men and women including immigrants.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/8/2020
  

  'I Won't be the Last': Kamala Harris Accepts Place in History

  In a moment of reflection, Harris invoked her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who left her home in India for California in 1958, at the age of 19. “Maybe she didn’t quite imagine this moment,” Harris said. “But she believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible.”  

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11/7/2020
  

  ‘Harris Has the Potential To Change the Face of U.S. Politics’

  Historians Tera Hunter, Keisha Blain, Daina Ramey Berry, Manisha Sinha and Joanne Freeman are among experts who predict the impact of Harris's service as Vice President. 

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• SOURCE: iItaly.com
  11/8/2020
  

  What Does The Triumph of Biden-Harris Represent Historically?

  by Stanislao Pugliese

  "Americans should not make the same mistake committed in Italy after World War II in thinking that fascism was merely a “parenthesis” in Italian history."

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• SOURCE: People
  10/26/2020
  

  Martha S. Jones on The Power of Black Women That Led to Kamala Harris' Nod for VP

  by Martha S. Jones

  Shut out from the white-led suffrage movement by the beginning of the 20th century, Black women built their own political movement. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/9/2020
  

  Kamala Harris and the Shameful History of Slamming Women as 'Unlikable’

  Claire Bond Potter and Allison K. Lange weigh in on the long history of the term "likability" as a limit to women's political participation and power. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/8/2020
  

  Kamala Harris’s ‘Little History Lesson’ About Lincoln’s Supreme Court Vacancy Wasn’t Exactly True

  Lincoln delayed in announcing a replacement to Chief Justice Roger Taney in large part because the leaving the appointment unresolved would help preserve his fragile coalition through the election, especially by inducing potential rivals to campaign for him.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/8/2020
  

  Two Visions of Higher Education Illuminate the Chasm between Harris and Pence

  by Marybeth Gasman and Adam Laats

  The Vice Presidential candidates' university affiliations--Harris's attendance at Howard and membership in a prominent Black sorority, and Pence's political affinity for Liberty University--show that both HBCUs and Evangelical colleges are important and politically significant parts of the American higher education system.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  9/14/2020
  

  Where Kamala Harris’ Political Imagination Was Formed

  by Tessa Rissacher and Scott Saul

  A Black cultural center in Berkeley introduced Kamala Harris to activism and the connections between culture and politics. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  8/23/2020
  

  Film Shows Trailblazing Black Female Editor, VP Candidate

  A new documentary short highlights the journalistic and political career of Charlotta Bass, the Progressive Party candidate for Vice President in 1952.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/24/2020
  

  Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Limits of Representation

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  "Biden’s failure to meaningfully acknowledge his role in constructing the “color-blind” racial regime of the post-civil-rights era, structured around calls for law and order and the coded deprecation of poor Black women, has clouded his newfound epiphany concerning racial justice."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/20/2020
  

  Harris’s Speech Placed Her In The Long Legacy Of Black Women Who Built America

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Senator Harris has an army of shoulders to stand on, and she is going to need all of their strength, tenacity and resilience. Being called a “nasty woman” by President Trump will be the least of her concerns.