Why should it have taken a Kamala Harris — half Jamaican, half Indian, all American — to show the United States that race isn’t a Black or White matter?
Perhaps because people can be fairly “illiterate” about multiracial identity. So says Nitasha Tamar Sharma, a professor at Northwestern University specializing in African American and Asian American studies.
That’s an acute diagnosis but it’s still not clear why people are afflicted by the condition. After all, as has been reported by Vox, a Pew Research Center estimate of America’s multiracial population shows it is 6.9 per cent. And the US Census Bureau estimates that America’s multiracial population will triple by 2060.