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Kamala Harris is Black, of Jamaican descent, and Indian. Her parents are immigrants. Learn about the vice president’s racial and cultural identity in her own words.
Vice President Kamala Harris wrote in her memoir that her ... a fellow Jamaican American who used to work for ... 2009), was born in what was then Madras, British India (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu ...
Kamala Harris is a Black woman of Afro-Jamaican and Indian heritage. [ 5 ] Harris's birth certificate, dated November 5, 1964 (left), an affidavit correcting her middle name from Iyer to Devi, dated February 18, 1965 (right).
VP-Elect Kamala Harris Kept Her Last Name. Here's Why It Matters. Quinn Fish. November 9, 2020 at 11:01 AM ... (Kamala is Indian and Jamaican, while Doug is white and Jewish) couple wed in 2014, ...
Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris. He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Of Jamaican descent, Harris was born on August 23, 1938, to Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan) [20] [21] and Oscar Joseph Harris. [22]
Kamala's father, Donald J. Harris (1938–), [6] is an Afro-Jamaican who immigrated to the United States in 1961 and also enrolled in UC Berkeley, specializing in development economics. The first Black scholar to be granted tenure at Stanford University 's economics department, he has emeritus status there. [ 7 ]
Kamala Harris leans into her Indian, Black heritage to energize voters. Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY. Updated August 14, 2024 at 12:29 PM. ... “Jamaican people are happy people. No ...
The daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, both of whom immigrated to the U.S. during the Civil Rights Movement, Harris’s historic presidential bid has again put a spotlight on American identity politics and the growing number of people who say they are multiracial.