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Tanvi Misra

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Kamala Harris waving to the audience in front of American flags.

What Does Caste Have to Do With Kamala Harris?

This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?
by Tanvi Misra via Harper's Bazaar on September 26, 2024
Photo of immigants being detained.

‘I Became a Jailer’: The Origins of American Immigrant Detention

The massive U.S. apparatus for holding immigrants has a long American tradition.
by Ariel Aberg-Riger, Tanvi Misra via CityLab on July 20, 2021

A New Way of Seeing 200 Years of American Immigration

To depict how waves of immigrants shaped the United States, a team of designers looked to nature as a model.
by Tanvi Misra via CityLab on December 17, 2018

The South's Penchant for Confederate Street Names, Mapped

A new project tallies the streets named after Confederate leaders alongside those named after civil rights personalities.
by Tanvi Misra via CityLab on August 25, 2017
Chandra Dharma Sena Gooneratne wearing a turban.

How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era

At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white. But a few meters of cloth changed the way some people of color were treated.
by Tanvi Misra via NPR on July 19, 2014
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