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‘Serious Problem For Blacks’: Kamala Harris’ Dad Once Warned Against Mass Immigration
Vice President Kamala Harris’ father, Donald Harris, once co-authored a treatise in which he argued mass immigration was dangerous for the United States, particularly for black Americans. The 1988 book titled “Black…
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About Donald J. Harris
Donald Jasper Harris is a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. He was a scholar granted tenure in the Stanford Department of Economics, and he is the father of Kamala Harris, the 49th vice president of the United States and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, and of Maya Harris, a lawyer, advocate and writer.
Everything about Donald J. Harris →- Occupation
- academic, university teacher, economist
- Citizenship
- United States, Jamaica
- Born
- August 23, 1938
- Website
- https://profiles.stanford.edu/donald%20j%20harris