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Tanvi Misra

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The Death of Asylum

How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism.

by Tanvi Misra via Jewish Currents on April 16, 2026
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
‘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
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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
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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
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on August 25, 2017
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

Tanvi Misra

Bylines

The Death of Asylum

What Does Caste Have to Do With Kamala Harris?

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

A New Way of Seeing 200 Years of American Immigration

The South's Penchant for Confederate Street Names, Mapped

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