Sentences with phrase «jamaican immigrants»

The images depict a British barbershop frequented by Jamaican immigrants.

Mr. Anderson, a painter whose parents were Jamaican immigrants, explores the theme of identity and is known for his depictions of Afro - Caribbean barbershops.

What is the role of the social studies with regard to the marginalization of Jamaican immigrants of color?

The daughter of Jamaican immigrants who moved to Boston when she was three, Tena Fenton grew up in a city rich with universities and colleges that nonetheless seemed out of reach to her and others like her.

The glossy mailer presents Blake as the son of Jamaican immigrants who went «from no house to the White House.»

At the age of 29, the Canadian daughter of Jamaican immigrants was well on her way to a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry.

Born in the Bronx to Jamaican immigrant parents, Blake relocated to Illinois at age 18 to attend Northwestern University.

Born in the Bronx to Jamaican immigrant parents, Blake moved to Illinois at age 18 to attend Northwestern University.

Himid's paintings, drawings, and installations make reference to the African diaspora and the slave industry, while Anderson's work explores ideas of identity, as inspired by his Jamaican immigrant parents, often in depictions of Afro - Caribbean barbershops.

But in Britain, where he was born to Jamaican immigrant parents in 1965, he's something of a player, not least for having studied under Peter Doig at the Royal College in the mid-1990s.

Born in Birmingham, England, in 1965 to Jamaican immigrant parents, Anderson did a residency in 2002 in Trinidad (where Doig now lives), an experience that has provided him with the source material for his tropical imagery.

American readers might be surprised to find that the first black man to study law in North America was Robert Sutherland, a Jamaican immigrant to Canada who also became the first known minority graduate of a Canadian university when he matriculated with honours from Queen's in 1852.

Not exact matches

The bombings were part of an Al Qaeda attack carried out by three British - born Muslims from immigrant families and one Jamaican convert to Islam.

He's no poser but a for - real skinhead, spewing angry intolerance toward Jamaicans, Pakistanis and other immigrants, whom he blames for draining England's resources and spiking unemployment.

In her exploration of Vietnamese, Mexican, Korean, Jamaican, South Asian, and African immigrant communities, the author hops around the country, using the skills of the investigative reporter and her own remarkable capacity for social engagement, to enter the lives of these groups, and to enable readers to enter into their lives, too.

Zadie Smith's dazzling first novel plays out its bounding, vibrant course in a Jamaican hair salon in North London, an Indian restaurant in Leicester Square, an Irish poolroom turned immigrant café, a liberal public school, a sleek science institute.