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  1. Oprah Magazine. According to Harris's 2018 autobiography, Donald was born in Jamaica in 1938 and immigrated to the United States to get his doctorate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He eventually became a naturalized United States citizen.

  2. Sep 13, 2020 · How Kamala Harris’s Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other, in a Black Study Group. Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan grew up under British colonial rule on different sides of the...

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  4. Aug 14, 2020 · (AP) By Ciara O'Rourke August 14, 2020. If Your Time is short. In 2018, Donald J. Harris, Kamala Harris’ father, said in an essay that he is the descendant of Hamilton Brown, an Irish man...

  5. Jan 19, 2021 · According to his Stanford bio, Donald is a naturalized U.S. citizen (which unfortunately sparked bogus, and racist, claims that Kamala isn't eligible to run for office). Donald attended the ...

  6. Jan 20, 2021 · Kamala Harris's dad, an economist and Stanford University professor, immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica for his Ph.D. While Harris is very vocal about her Indian and Jamaican roots, it’s not...

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  7. Aug 13, 2020 · As of this writing, the Kamala Harris article on Wikipedia says, accurately: “She is the first African American and the first Asian American to be chosen as the running mate of a major party’s ...

  8. Nov 7, 2020 · One important part of her backstory is her biracial African American and Indian-American identity she inherited from her parents, Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris, who both immigrated to the United States (from India and Jamaica, respectively) to pursue doctorate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley.