The grey areas in America’s understanding of race

<p>Why should it have taken a Kamala Harris &mdash; half Jamaican, half Indian, all American &mdash; to show the United States that race isn&rsquo;t a Black or White matter?</p> <p>Perhaps because people can be fairly &ldquo;illiterate&rdquo; about multiracial identity. So&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/kamala-harris-multiracial-identity/2020/08/18/57bb1cd4-de3b-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">says Nitasha Tamar Sharma</a>, a professor at Northwestern University specializing in African American and Asian American studies.</p> <p>That&rsquo;s an acute diagnosis but it&rsquo;s still not clear why people are afflicted by the condition. After all, as has been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/8/14/21366307/kamala-harris-black-south-asian-indian-identity" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">reported by Vox</a>, a Pew Research Center estimate of America&rsquo;s multiracial population shows it is 6.9 per cent. And the US Census Bureau estimates that America&rsquo;s multiracial population will triple by 2060.</p> <p><a href="https://rashmee.medium.com/the-grey-areas-in-americas-understanding-of-race-7437fc47aa88"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>