Nina Davuluri was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1989. When she was four, her family moved to Oklahoma, and when she was ten, to Michigan, where she went to college. Six years ago, they returned upstate, and in July, Davuluri became Miss New York 2013. On Sunday night in Atlantic City, she was crowned Miss America 2014.
On Monday morning, girls at the Montessori school that Davuluri’s grandmother runs, in Andhra Pradesh, India, celebrated Davuluri’s victory with pride: a woman of Indian heritage had become Miss America for the first time. Yet if you Googled “Miss America” then, the top story was not about Davuluri’s glitzy crown but the racist tweets that followed her victory. The American public once sneered at television sets in private when they didn’t like what they saw. Today, they have the Internet.
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