Who is Kamala Harris' 'combative Marxist economist' father, Donald J. Harris?

Vice President Kamala Harris' economist father has largely stayed out of the public spotlight, overwhelmingly refraining from discussing his daughter publicly.

Harris was born in Oakland, California, in 1964 to Shyamala Gopalan, a ​​biologist who immigrated to the U.S. from India, and Donald Harris, an economist who immigrated from Jamaica. 

Harris’ parents divorced when she was 7 years old, with the future vice president spending a lot of her time with her mother and sister in Canada in her youth, where their mother worked as a researcher at the McGill University School of Medicine.