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Kamala Harris is facing attacks on her racial identity. Here’s more about her background.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, is facing attacks fromsome conservativesand their surrogates on her racial and cultural heritage, ethnic background and gender.A list recentlysharedacrosssocialmedia,titled “Kamala Harris Facts,” contains wrong or missing-context claims about her background, including that she is “Not African American — Indian & Jamaican.” Theseattacks— similar to ones raised when she was named President Joe Biden’s running mate in 2020 — misrepresent Harris’ heritage.On TV and social media, some peoplehave falsely and repeatedly claimedHarris isn’t eligible for the presidency because of her family’s immigrant background. Harris was born in 1964 in Oakland, California, and as someone born in the U.S., is constitutionally eligible to be president.All of this reflects a poor understanding of history and the fluid nature of various interpretations of racial identity in the United States, race and politics experts say.”The appro…