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- Donald J. Harris
Jamaican, American
Shyamala Gopalan
Indian, American
- Donald J. Harris
Jan 20, 2021 · What is her ethnicity? Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican-born father and an Indian-born mother. Her ethnic background has been noted because they both are historic firsts for a U.S....
He is the father of the 49th and current vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, as well as of her sister, lawyer and political commentator Maya Harris. Throughout his career, Harris has worked on economic analysis and policy regarding the economy of Jamaica, his native country.
Jan 19, 2021 · An important piece of her backstory is Kamala's father, Donald Harris, a former economics professor at Stanford and an immigrant from Jamaica, who has...thoughts about some things Kamala has...
Jan 20, 2021 · As a lawyer and U.S. Senator, Harris’s identity in both her personal life and politics has been largely shaped by her background: her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who died in 2009, was an Indian...
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...
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 ...
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.
