Talk:Jamaican Americans

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kendraknows.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 01:01, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Expansion
This article is definitely going to need expansion. Gringo300 23:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC) This is an article written by ingorant people, in order to be Jamaican-American, you have to be born in the USA, some of these people weren't so stop trying to group all black people in one little box. Different worlds, different cultures. People outside of the USA DO NOT call themselves African-American, neither do the ones born in American by parents of different countries. You need to fix all these articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by APeeadda` (talk • contribs) 05:28, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Alicia Keys
I didnt make any edits but in a interview Keys revealed that she is in fact not of Jamaican background at all. She described her ethinc background as Italian and black, with likely translates to Italian and African-American. So you may want to think about replacing her with someone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sourcechecker419 (talk • contribs) 14:26, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Deletion vote
Please see the deletion vote at Articles for deletion/List of Bahamian Americans. Badagnani 03:17, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Copious amount of Jamaican Americans in Jamaica, Queens no pun intended. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.202.88.27 (talk) 23:56, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Move to delete the first section First Jamaicans in America as the blacks of Jamestown were African chattel from the kingdoms of Greater Angola captured in the ongoing conflicts between kingdoms, ngolas and manikongos and local nobility, the kingdoms and the Jagas, the kingdoms and the Imbangala, and the kingdoms versus the colonizing Portuguese. They left Africa on the San Juan Bautista, a Spanish frigate, which was captured in the Golf of Mexico by the White Lion and the Treasurer which were two English pirate ships carrying non-English licenses. Two dozen or so of the captured Africans were traded to Governor Yeardley and Merchant Adam Piersey of Jamestown, Virginia, the rest traded in Bermuda. The status of these Africans as chattel versus indentured servants was an ongoing social and political debate (which shaped the eventual status of subsequent captured Africans and the perceived natural status of blacks in the North American Colony) which found some of the original Angolans able to work their way out of servitude, or buy their way out of slavery and others trapped in life-long, inheritable, chattel slavery. If someone could present sources for the claims in that section that would be great, most accounts were that the first blacks in Jamestown were Africans from Angola (first African American, as ethnicity, born in 1623) Karayan1103 (talk) 05:04, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Kelis....
Kelis should be here.... on kelis's page it states: Kelis was born and raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, New York. Her first name, pronounced /kəˈlis/ (she can be heard singing her own name in the song Blindfold me), is a combination of her father's name, Kenneth, and her mother's name, Eveliss. Kenneth is a Jamaican jazz musician, Pentecostal minister, and professor at Wesleyan University.[2] Eveliss is a Chinese-Puerto Rican fashion designer who inspired Kelis to pursue her singing career.

Fefe Dobson: http://www.imdb.com states: Her father is Jamaican and Asian. and another source: Felicia Lynn Dobson was born on February 28, 1985, in the Toronto, Ontario district of Scarborough. Fefe Dobson is biracial. Her mother is of Irish, Dutch and English ancestry, while her father is of Jamaican Heritage. http://www.perfectpeople.net/biography/2922/fefe-dobson.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.192.179.150 (talk) 20:20, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

infobox
An editor made an error which blanked out most of the pictures in the infobox. I resored the pics. One pic, of olivia, I couldn't identify so I sub'd in harry belafonte--Work permit (talk) 04:05, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I restored the individual pics rather then the collage, to give the flexibility to change images--Work permit (talk) 02:28, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Some editors seem to prefer a combined picture. Looking to find consensus on the better approach. With individual pictures, its easier for an editor to swap out pictures over time. Also, when you mouse over the pic you can see the title for the file. Is there any reason to prefer the combined pic?--Work permit (talk) 21:52, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Alicia Keys should be removed from the infobox. She has stated that she is not of Jamaican descent at all. Blackjays1 (talk) 06:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Feel free to subsitute her with someone else. Grace Jones?--Work permit (talk) 05:46, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

No where near 94.5% of Americans of Jamaican background were born in Jamaica.
The correct word in that sentence is ancestor. Not ancestry. The textbook Immigrant America (p. 69) issued at the University of South Florida says there were 554,897 Jamaican born people in the US in the 2000 Census. This article claims there are about 911,000 Americans (or residents in the US) of Jamaican ancestry. So the percentage of foreign born people is actually about 61%. It is quite obvious that 94.5% of Jamaican-Americans are not foreign born. Plus, within that remaining 5.5% that this article stated, there are people that are beyond second generation. There have been Jamaicans immigrating to the US as early as WWI. Wouldn't Colin Powell's grandchildren be 3rd generation? How would they be statistically accounted for in this statement? Look at all the other famous Americans of Jamaican background too. So many of them are old or would be old if they were still alive. Yet they were born in the US. Tom65.32.185.72 (talk) 17:45, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

So I provide a source and explicitly show you how your quote is mathematically impossible? And than you put it back up? Way to promote ignorance! We will keep running through this cycle until you provide an explanation or leave the cited information. Tom65.32.185.72 (talk) 23:23, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Will .I .Am
He should be on the list.

http://ethnicelebs.com/will-i-am —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.5.129 (talk) 00:17, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Nearly 1 million Jamaicans in America?
I'm calling bullshit on this figure, on every single page of foreign peoples there are always these ludicrous numbers of people compared to the actual census-reported figures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.231.17.247 (talk) 20:12, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Jamaican Americans. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20150103161759/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny2013/nny_2013.pdf to http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny2013/nny_2013.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 18:55, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Aren't Jamaicans already Americans?
I don't know if it is said like that in English, but Jamaica is an island in the American continent, so they are Americans per se — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.47.112.116 (talk) 21:12, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

1st paragraph after the infobox: don't they mean slaves?
"After 1838, European colonies in the Caribbean with expanding sugar industries imported large numbers of *immigrants* to meet their acute labor shortage." 2603:6011:A400:9D32:B804:8C05:5EA:4BC3 (talk) 17:52, 12 February 2022 (UTC)


 * No. Immigrants. BilCat (talk) 18:30, 12 February 2022 (UTC)