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Jan 20, 2021 · Getty/Instagram Kamala Harris's ethnicity is Indian and Jamaican. Vice President Kamala Harris has an interesting family tree. What is her ethnicity? Harris is the daughter of a...
Aug 14, 2020 · And yet for years, she has primarily been identified as a Black woman in the public eye, with her South Asian identity rarely mentioned in media coverage until fairly recently.
Kamala Harris's Jamaican American father, Donald J. Harris, is of Afro-Jamaican and Irish-Jamaican ancestry. He is a Stanford University professor of economics (emeritus) who arrived in the United States from British Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, receiving a PhD in economics in 1966.
Aug 14, 2020 · Harris has said before that she simply identifies as “American,” although her life was ingrained in African American culture. The suggestion that Jamaicans aren’t connected to Africa is ...
Jan 20, 2021 · Ms Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father. Kamala Harris. Kamala, left, as child with her mother and...
Aug 13, 2020 · NBCBLK. Black, Asian, American: Kamala Harris' identity, how it shaped her and what it means for voters. Advocates say that Harris’ multiracial background in an arena that's long been...
Jan 20, 2021 · 20 January 2021. 1:03. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Kamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American...
