IYARIC

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024): Caribbean Studies, Today
Articles

"It is not about us; it is never about us": An Analysis of the Alliance of Jamaican Alumni Associations (AJAA) in Canada, 1980s-2000s

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Arshad Suliman
University of Toronto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/2816-8275.18

Published 2024-09-30

How to Cite

Suliman, A. (2024). "It is not about us; it is never about us": An Analysis of the Alliance of Jamaican Alumni Associations (AJAA) in Canada, 1980s-2000s. IYARIC, 2(1), 22–28. https://doi.org/10.25071/2816-8275.18

Abstract

Using the Alliance of Jamaica Alumni Associations (AJAA) as a case study, this paper demonstrates that the Jamaican diasporic community in Toronto created organizations as vehicles of cultural retention, community responses to anti-immigrant and anti-Black racism, and community development—both in the host and home countries.

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