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On March 1, 1998, the National Council for Indian Culture in Jamaica was formed. It is the umbrella organization of Indian associations with the mission to preserve and promote Indian culture. Notable Jamaicans of Indian descent Notable Indo-Jamaicans. Shaun Bridgmohan, jockey, first Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby
Jamaican culture consists of the religion, norms, values, and lifestyle that define the people of Jamaica. The culture is mixed, with an ethnically diverse society, stemming from a history of inhabitants beginning with the original inhabitants of Jamaica (the Taínos ). The Spaniards originally brought slavery to Jamaica.
The West Indies' major domestic competitions are the Regional Four Day Competition (first-class) and the Regional Super50 (List A one-day) and more recently the Caribbean Premier League . The regional football governing body is the Caribbean Football Union. National teams have competed in the CFU Championship from 1978 to 1988 and the Caribbean ...
Colorism is defined as "Prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on the shade of brown skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group. This discrimination can be towards both light and dark shades of brown. " [1] The coining of the term "colorism" is commonly attributed to American Alice Walker in her 1983 ...
The Taíno, an Arawak people, were the major population group throughout most of the Caribbean. Their culture was divided into three main groups, the Western Taíno, the Classic Taíno, and the Eastern Taíno, with other variations within the islands. Classic Taíno. The Classic Taíno lived in eastern Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico. They ...
Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery on the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the island's mountainous interior, primarily in the eastern parishes. Africans who were enslaved during Spanish rule over Jamaica (1493–1655) may have been the first to develop such refugee ...
Carolyn Cooper CD (born 20 November 1950) [1] is a Jamaican author, essayist and literary scholar. She is a former professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. From 1975 to 1980, she was an assistant professor at Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts.
Indo-Caribbeans in the 19th century celebrating the Indian culture in West Indies through dance and music. From 1838 to 1917, over half a million Indians from the former British Raj or British India and Colonial India , were taken to thirteen mainland and island nations in the Caribbean as indentured workers to address the demand for sugar cane ...