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Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations

Jamaica In the Canadian Experience

A Multiculturalizing Presence

edited by Carl E. James & Andrea Davis

Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Initial publish date
Aug 2012
Category
Discrimination & Race Relations
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552665350
    Publish Date
    Aug 2012
    List Price
    $$29.95

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Description

In 2012, Jamaica celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain. In the short period of its life as a nation, Jamaica’s increasingly powerful influence on global culture cannot go unremarked. The growth of Jamaican diasporas beyond Britain to the United States, Canada and West Africa has served to strengthen Jamaica’s global reach, so that today Jamaica’s cultural, economic and political achievements are felt way beyond its national borders. This anthology commemorates Jamaica’s independence by acknowledging the immense and widespread contributions of Jamaica and Jamaicans to Canadian society.

About the authors

Carl E. James is a professor in the Faculty of Education at York University. He is author of several books, including Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Culture, and co-editor, with A. Shadd, of Talking about Difference: Encounters in Culture, Language, and Identities.

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Editorial Reviews

”I am pleased to be associated in a modest way with the genesis and conceptualization of this work and even more gratified by its completion and the high quality of its content.”–Sheila Sealy Monteith, High Commissioner for Jamaica to Canada ”This important interdisciplinary collection pays tribute to the transnational migrations that are such an integral part of the fabric of Caribbean life, and that have also fundamentally shaped the Canadian landscape. The book offers us generous and hopeful vision of multiculturalism, peopled by the daily joys, trials and aspirations of generations of Jamaican-Canadians who are neither simply urban residents nor recent arrivals, and whose presence is key to understanding what it means to be Canadian today.”–Alissa Trotz, Associate Professor and Director, Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto