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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.
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 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 · Race and Ethnicity. California. Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stands left as his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at the Hotel DuPont in ...
Aug 13, 2020 · 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 predominantly...
Jan 20, 2021 · Kamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president. She was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th...
Aug 11, 2020 · Her mother chose Kamala’s name as a nod both to her Indian roots—Kamala means “lotus” and is another name for the Hindu goddess Lakshmi—and the empowerment of women.