White myths about black brilliance
Kamala Harris is black and she is a woman. Significantly, her blackness does not derive from a race classification grid that uses biological ancestry; hers is a blackness that is evocatively aesthetic. It was a black woman the world watched engaging cogently in a debate with a white American man last week. It was a spectacle of feminine black consciousness pitted against white geriatric masculinity that has posed itself as the symbol of social power and global inequitable privilege since the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the
