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Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics

2024/7/29
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Vincent Cunningham：将卡玛拉·哈里斯与奥巴马进行比较存在误区，但他们都拥有非美国籍的黑人父亲，这在构建美国黑人身份方面带来了独特的挑战。哈里斯和奥巴马都通过选择性地融入特定黑人社群（例如，哈里斯加入了美国黑人姐妹会AKA）来塑造自己的美国黑人身份，这种身份认同的建构过程与他们的政治生涯紧密相连。哈里斯在公众场合展现的文化符号运用娴熟，这在未来的竞选活动中将如何发挥作用值得关注。 Doreen St. Félix：哈里斯对非洲的访问以及她对美国黑人身份和印度身份的复杂关系，揭示了亚裔美国人身份在美国例外主义观念下的复杂性。人们对哈里斯身份的关注主要集中在她作为黑人的身份，而忽略了她作为南亚裔女性的身份，这与人们期待一个女性版的奥巴马有关。哈里斯在堕胎权利问题上的立场体现了她试图保持政治中心地位的策略，并巧妙地利用女性身份和道德立场的优势。她利用个人经历（例如，帮助受虐待的朋友）来赋予堕胎权利问题更强的道德感召力，从而超越了传统的性别政治框架。

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One of the big questions about Vice-President Harris’s candidacy is undoubtedly race. She would not be the first Black President. “I think that most times when people bring Kamala Harris and Barack Obama into the same conversation, they are kind of mistaken—it’s just this kind of wish-casting,” Vinson Cunningham says. But “what they do have in common is a Black father who is not from America. And this brings all kinds of strange things into being . . . in creating a Black American identity.” Cunningham and fellow staff writer Doreen St. Félix discuss Harris’s complicated identity as the child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, and more.  

(This segment is an excerpt from a longer conversation) on The Political Scene.) 

Plus, the New Yorker sports correspondent Louisa Thomas talks with David Remnick about some of the unusual venues of the Paris Olympics—from the Place de la Concorde and the supposedly cleaned-up Seine to a small reef village in Tahiti.