Afro-Caribbean


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Afro-Caribbean

a person of African descent who has migrated from, or is living in, the Caribbean. In the context of the UK, the term is used to describe people who were part of the post-World War II labour migration of inhabitants of the Caribbean Islands, and their descendants in Britain.
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It took place in Walsall town centre on Saturday, August 10, bringing different communities together to celebrate the work and contributions of the Afro-Caribbean communities in the town.
Celebrating culture with One Love
"In the Afro-Caribbean community, if a boy's hair is not long and plaited, or put in dreadlocks, we are expected to cut the hair very short for a smart tidy appearance.
Josiah's new haircut too 'extreme' for playground; STYLIST MUM DANICA HITS OUT AT SCHOOL'S 'HARSH TREATMENT'
The Afro-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) tried to find a donor for Delroy, whose match can only be someone of Afro-Caribbean descent.
Can't Pay We'll Take It Away star Delroy Anglin gets transplant in his brave fight to beat cancer; The star of Can't Pay We'll Take It Away has endured the ravages of cancer
At this week's meeting of the Strategic Policing and Crime Board, Chief Constable Dave Thompson admitted the number of Afro-Caribbean youngsters held in cells seemed "disproportionately high".
Quarter of all young people held by the police are black; Activist questions whether Afro-Caribbeans are being targeted unfairly
Chief Constable Dave Thompson admitted the number of Afro-Caribbean youngsters held in cells seemed "disproportionately high" at a meeting of the Strategic Policing and Crime Board.
Black youths are being 'unfairly targeted' by police, says activist
Hall (1992:110) points to the intellectual limitations that arise from the assumption that European cultures and languages were a 'terminus ad quem' for Afro-Caribbean populations.
Robin Sabino: Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his Jacket
In the case of Afro-Caribbean immigrants, the issue is complicated by the fact that they arrived in the early decades of the 1900s with a deep ambivalence over their racial and cultural heritages, the legacy of a colonial, slave-based past (Buchanan 1979).
Black in America too: Afro-Caribbean immigrants/Noir en Amerique Aussi: les immigrants Afro-caribeens/Negro en America tambien: inmigrantes Afrocaribenos
He was an afro-Caribbean teenager, around 5''6 tall and wearing a black baseball cap with a large peak and a gold sticker.
E-fit plea after boy shot with BB gun
Special Note to Readers: Afro-Caribbean = voluntary immigrant, a person who chose to migrate to the U.S.; African American = involuntary immigrant, a person who did not choose to migrate, but whose ancestors were brought to the U.S.
Afro-Caribbean and African American students, family factors, and the influence on science performance in the United States: the untold story
THE owner of a boutique in one of Coventry's oldest streets wants to convert it to a takeaway specialising in Afro-Caribbean food.
Food is the new fashion for Henry
and more than 1.5 million Afro-Caribbean residents.
Non-married women and Black ethnicity: an analysis of the likelihood of homeownership
Trichologist Renee Lagrange, who specialises in Afro-Caribbean hair in Harley Street, London said: "People get bald patches because they don't rest from wearing weaves and stress to the roots can cause temporary hair loss known as traction alopecia.
NAOMIGOD! Supermodel's no-hair horror

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