Afro-Caribbean

Af·ro-Car·ib·be·an

(ăf′rō-kăr′ə-bē′ən, -kə-rĭb′ē-ən)

adj.

1. Combining African and other, generally European cultural elements as found in the Caribbean region: Afro-Caribbean music; Afro-Caribbean religions.

2. Of or relating to Afro-Caribbeans or their history or culture.

A native or inhabitant of the Caribbean region who is of African ancestry.

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Afro-Caribbean

adj

(Peoples) denoting or relating to Caribbean people of African descent or their culture

(Peoples) a Caribbean of African descent

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Translations

Afro-Caribbean

[ˌæfrəʊkærɪˈbiːən]

A. ADJ → afrocaribeño

B. N → afrocaribeño/a m/f

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A community came together to celebrate Afro-Caribbean culture in the heart of a busy town centre.

Celebrating culture with One Love

Josiah's haircut hide traction according to Until his hair grew back to a satisfactory length, the five-year-old lost his playtimes but Danica has hit out at the "harsh" treatment of her son,claiming that the policy was "culturally biased" and "dictating a hair style that's not suitable" for her son's Afro-Caribbean locks - an accusation the school denies.

Josiah's new haircut too 'extreme' for playground; STYLIST MUM DANICA HITS OUT AT SCHOOL'S 'HARSH TREATMENT'

Thousands responded to the call to find a donor for Delroy, but due to the low number of Afro-Caribbean people on the register the cells had to be taken from his own body.

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

And 25 per cent of those were from the Afro-Caribbean community, new statistics show.

Quarter of all young people held by the police are black; Activist questions whether Afro-Caribbeans are being targeted unfairly

A QUARTER of the 7,700 children and youths held by the police in the West Midlands this year were from the Afro-Caribbean community.

Black youths are being 'unfairly targeted' by police, says activist

Boutros analyzes artistic self-representation in the writing of three writers who have contributed to the project of a national Afro-Caribbean literature in very different ways.

Facing Diasporic Trauma: Self-Representation in the Writings of John Hearne, Caryl Phillips, and Fred D'Aguiar

Chapter 10 summarizes the most important findings and underscores that creole genesis should be located in the emergence of the Danish colony's Afro-Caribbean community.

Robin Sabino: Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his Jacket

Afro-Caribbean Party lives up to its title as a lively musical celebration for all ages.

Afro-Caribbean Party

Intersecting race with ethnicity, as I do mostly in this paper, is an attempt, first, to discern the saliency of race and ethnicity to the social identities of early first-generation Afro-Caribbean immigrants and African Americans, and second, to demonstrate the transitive nature of their social identification.

Black in America too: Afro-Caribbean immigrants/Noir en Amerique Aussi: les immigrants Afro-caribeens/Negro en America tambien: inmigrantes Afrocaribenos

Rejecting the view that Negerhollands was a lingua franca of a colonial population that included free and bound, privileged and oppressed, Sabino (English, Auburn U., Alabama) argues that it was the language of the Danish colony's Afro-Caribbean community.

Language contact in the Danish West Indies; giving Jack his jacket

The boy was walking along the footpath with his scooter towards his mother when he was approached from behind by an Afro-Caribbean teenager carrying a BB airgun.