Finding the Real Kamala Harris: Black Women, Politics, and Stereotypes

EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, the hosts discuss how Black women face dual challenges at the intersection of race and gender bias in our society, particularly when they seek positions of power and influence. In politics, the opponent often foregoes the complexity of actual issues in favor of the simplicity of caricatures, buzz-words, or one-dimensional labels. LINKS IN THIS EPISODE Follow Ellis Conversations on Twitter Follow Judge Ronald Ellis on Twitter Follow Jamil Ellis on Twitter Follow Jamil Ellis on LinkedIn Check out Unified Ground Check out BlackHistoryChatGPT Different language used for men and women https://hbr.org/2018/05/the-different-words-we-use-to-describe-male-and-female-leaders Women in the modern Civil Rights Movement https://nmaahc.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/black_women_civil_rights_movement_5.pdf Michelle Obama labeled angry Black woman https://time.com/4606458/michelle-obama-angry-black-woman-label-oprah/ Ida B. Wells Biography https://www.biography.com/activist/ida-b-wells Overcoming the angry Black woman stereotype https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2019/05/31/overcoming-the-angry-black-woman-stereotype/#586d83541fce This short segment talks about the 19th Amendment being a white project. Black women were disadvantaged even as the country was celebrating a victory for democracy.  https://www.npr.org/2020/08/26/904730251/yes-women-could-vote-after-the-19th-amendment-but-not-all-women-or-men Barbara Jordan Nixon Impeachment speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrqVBclJVco Shirley Chisholm Biographies: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/unbought-and-unbossed-when-black-woman-ran-for-the-white-house-180958699/ Kamala Harris' voting record https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678