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Jan 20, 2021 · Vice President Kamala Harris has an interesting family tree. What is her ethnicity? Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican-born father and an Indian-born mother.
Sep 13, 2020 · She was a tiny Indian scientist wearing a sari and sandals — the only other foreign student to show up for a talk on race in America. She was, he recalled, “a standout in appearance relative to...
Jan 20, 2021 · Vice President Kamala Harris is "thinking about [her] mother" on Inauguration Day today when she makes history as the first female, Black, and South Asian Vice President, she said in a recent...
Ancestry of Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris is of Black, Indian and Irish Jamaican descent on her paternal side and of Indian descent on her maternal side. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Gopalan (Kamala's mother) was a Tamil Brahmin, part of a "privileged elite" in Hinduism's ancient caste hierarchy."
Aug 14, 2020 · The daughter of two immigrants — her father came from Jamaica, her mother from India — Harris grew up in a Black middle-class neighborhood in Berkeley, where her parents would often join civil...
Jan 20, 2021 · Kamala is biracial, African American and Indian-American. Her parents Shyamala and Donald, who both immigrated to the United States, from India and Jamaica respectively. They were...
Jan 20, 2021 · Harris' parents, Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan, were both born in 1938. Donald was the son of Afro-Jamaican parents, and he attended local schools before graduating from the University...
Nov 7, 2020 · Vice President Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California to two immigrant parents: mom Shyamala Gopalan, and dad Donald Harris. A prominent cancer researcher before passing away in 2009, Gopalan was born in India and came to the United States to get her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jan 22, 2021 · Kamala Harris’s parents divorced when Kamala was just seven, so Harris credits her single mother for her upbringing. Nevertheless, Gopalan ensured Kamala and her sister Maya grew up well acquainted with both their African and Indian roots, which became formative to their American identity.
Aug 13, 2020 · Self-interest brought Harris’s parents to the United States, and life in America treated them and their children well. Research confirms that this still works.
