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Even fictional presidents don’t look like Kamala Harris − although Black men and white women have been represented in the Oval Office

  • Written by Peter Kastor, Professor of History & American Culture Studies, Associate Vice Dean of Research, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Even fictional presidents don’t look like Kamala Harris − although Black men and white women have been represented in the Oval OfficeThere have been Black presidents and female presidents in movies, but no presidents with Kamala Harris' background.Klaus Hackenberg/The Image Bank/Getty Images

The United States had its first Black president and its first female president over a half-century ago.

They were fictional, they were on screen, their names were Douglass Dilman and Leslie...

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