From Lotus Goddess To Holy Basil: Transnational Racio-Scapes In US Presidential Politics – OpEd

By Radhika Parameswaran and Pallavi Rao *

On June 27, 2019, the night of the second Democratic primary debate, Donald Trump Jr. shared and deleted a tweet posted by the right-wing provocateur Ali Alexander. Alexander’s social media post alleged that presidential candidate Kamala Devi Harris was “not an American Black”...