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Caribbean.Pdf A P E R S O N A L S T O R Y Caribbean* Organizations, Associations and Resources global Atlanta Snapshots Below is a listing of selected organizations who work with the Caribbean Community. Additional resources are A LOOK AT ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN THE ATLANTA REGION Miguel Drayton was born and raised in Barbados. In 1988, at the age made a documentary (featuring Prince Charles) about the Stanford available at www.atlantaregional.com of 16, he moved to Atlanta to join his father who was already living program at Oxford. in the city (his father moved to Atlanta from New York when his After graduating, Miguel started his graduate training at the GENERAL INFORMATION Atlanta Jamaican Association CULTURAL Caribbean Star News Magazine E n g l i s h - S p e a k i n g C a r i b b e a n s company relocated). A year after Miguel moved to Atlanta his sister University of Southern California. Since 1997 Miguel has worked for Atlanta/Port of Spain Sister (770) 593-9290 Atlanta Carnival Executive Square joined him and his father. Their mother remains in Barbados. Warner Brothers and DreamWorks, and written a sitcom for Paramount City Committee Contact: Derrick Harvey, President www.atlantacarnival.org 4283 Memorial Drive, Suite D Miguel completed high school in Barbados. When he arrived in Network TV. He recently directed a feature film shot in Barbados and (770) 433-8211, ext. 17181 www.theaja.com Decatur, Georgia 30032 The Global Atlanta Snapshots were created to foster understanding among all people of the Atlanta region. The Snapshots show the rich Atlanta he became involved in the United Methodist Church’s youth is on the faculty at the Art Institute of California in Los Angeles, teaching Contact: Norma Kendall-Hamlet Carilanta Players, Inc. – Caribbean (404) 294-9099 ethnic and cultural diversity that our region now enjoys. The residents of Atlanta’s ethnic communities may have lived in the region for a Belizean Association of Georgia Performing Theater Group www.thecaribbeanstar.com ministries, took continuing education classes, and spent hours in the film and television history, and visual language. Barbados American Cultural Alliance (404) 209-8006 Contact: Mrs. Hertencer Shepherd long time or may have recently arrived. They may come from cultures and have customs significantly different from each other’s, and from email: [email protected] (404) 294-6601 library “pretending it was school”. He applied to college in Georgia Miguel states that he went through a period of culture shock when of Georgia Caribbean Soccer League those of the general population of the Atlanta region. What they have in common with the rest of the region is that they make it their home, but his high school transcripts from Barbados were not accepted as he moved to Atlanta. His move was made out of the assumption and 1641 Devon Court Contact: Rosie Rose (770) 381-9615 Stone Mountain, GA 30088 Reggalypso (Atlanta District Amateur Soccer League) and they share in and contribute to its success. The Snapshots introduce and portray selected communities in terms of their backgrounds, valid. He took the GED and reapplied a year later. He took the SAT hope that the U.S. could offer him better economic and educational Belizean and Friends Association (770) 918-8702 (770) 593-1832 Contact: Mike Hogan their customs and cultures, their roles in the regional economy, and specific local resources available throughout the region. as well, and his scores won him acceptance to the Honors Program opportunities than could be found in Barbados. But, in addition to Contact: Allan Russell (404) 233-2232 Contact: Adofus Taylor e-mail: [email protected] at DeKalb College where he began his studies in the journalism and the difficulty of leaving all his friends behind, one of the most difficult Contact: Dione Frazier, President art departments in 1992. During his year at DeKalb College he excelled things he had to adjust to was what he terms “the race issue”. In Los Islanderos The Sugarcane – Jamaican Stone Mountain Youth Soccer (770) 801-8391 Guyana Association of Georgia Singing Group Association academically. He states he was “obsessed” with maintaining a 4.00 Barbados, race is not as much of an issue as class. In Atlanta, Miguel www.losislanderos.homestead.com (770) 483-7562 (770) 484-5359 (770) 879-1123, (770) 469-5379 or Caribbean People in the Atlanta Economy GPA. In addition, he was head of the video club, was chosen as was forced to adjust to being treated as a black person. That meant Contact: Conrad Wilson Contact: Sybil Leslie (770) 736-5314 Outstanding Scholar for DeKalb by the Georgia State Assembly, and he was made to be aware of the fact that he was different. Miguel National Association of Barbados www.gaog.org Contact: Dexter D. Owen in health care occupations. One of every nine of these Caribbean was appointed Chief Justice to the college court. He also “tagged states that the police, for example, treated him and his friends differently. Organizations, Inc. EDUCATION www.smysa.org (404) 365-8377 Union of Jamaican Organizations Caribbean Students Association – women (1,100 workers) is working as a Registered Nurse; another 500 along” with members of the Barbados Association and received awards Teachers didn’t expect much from him as a young black man and an Contact: Kenneth Knight In Atlanta Georgia State University Tropical Sports Club women are in health care support positions. Caribbean women also from them for his academic achievements. During his studies at immigrant. They critiqued his accent when he gave presentations (404) 297-7696 (404) 463-9000 or (404) 463-9010 (404) 545-0597 make a major contribution in business and finance, holding 930 jobs DeKalb College, Miguel was a production assistant on a documentary saying his English was not understandable. Miguel states that the Virgin Islands Department of Tourism Vin Martin, Jamaica’s Honorary Consul Contact: Mr. Chris Stephenson, President Contact: Barry Bennett www.jusfun.com email:[email protected] in these occupations, with a large number holding positions as film for TBS and won an Emmy. negative attitude from his teachers forced him to “change my mind (404) 688-0906 Jacqueline Hodge, Regional Manager accountants. Other professional areas with significant numbers of In 1993 Miguel received a full scholarship to Stanford and he because I couldn’t depend on their minds to change”. Miguel says www.usvitourism.vi Virgin Islands Association of Atlanta Jamaican/American Partners in moved to California to continue his education. Miguel went on to that, although one never gets used to these negative and destructive P.O. Box 362254 Education women are teachers/librarians (650 jobs), computer-related (290) Oxford University in England as part of the Stanford overseas program attitudes, being faced with prejudice and racism made him stronger. ASSOCIATIONS Decatur, Georgia 30036 (678) 560-7651 and community services (190). In service occupations, beyond health (770) 623-6828 Contact: Beresford Davidson and he studied visual anthropology. During his time at Oxford he Atlanta Dominica Connection (770) 323-4670 e-mail: [email protected] care support, women are found in food preparation, building SPORTS maintenance and personal care positions, primarily childcare. BUSINESS Atlanta United Sports & Bahama Tourist Association In addition to those in business and professional occupations, (404)636-3911 Metro Atlanta Caribbean Chamber Cultural Association Who are the Caribbean People? of Commerce, Inc. (404) 786-3185 about 25 percent of Caribbean men (2,000 jobs) are employed in sales P.O. Box 14714 e-mail: [email protected] For many North Americans, the Caribbean region people were largely wiped out by disease and wars. The European Atlanta Caribbean Association and office jobs. Many are identified as sales representatives. The men (404) 377-5506 Atlanta, Georgia 30324 Contact: Marcus Joseph Contact: Ms. Chantel Ross-François, represents an array of relatively nearby vacation settlers then turned to importing slaves from Africa to work on Cleopatra Edwards Butera, President are also represented in construction and related work (1,230 jobs), Founder/ President paradises. The region has much to offer tourists, plantations. The numbers of these workers were augmented in the www.atlantacaribbean.org Borokeete Atlanta Sports & production (1,390), services (1,010) and transportation/materials e-mail: [email protected] Cultural Association far beyond just sandy beaches, blue waters and late 19th century with the importation of people from the Middle www.macccga.org handling (680). Atlanta Sports and Domino (770) 808-7958 resort hotels. The Caribbean region encompasses East, South Asia and the Far East as indentured servants. Association Contact: Ashaki Sharpe Many Caribbean people come to Atlanta with important skills. In Trade Counsel to Jamaica – Atlanta over two dozen island nations or territories that, at The interaction of these many nationalities and ethnic groups (770) 465-9004 www.borokeeteatlanta.com 3340 Peachtree Rd. NE, Suite 850 interviews, the University of the West Indies (UWI) was mentioned Contact: Gordon Barnwell various times, have been possessions of Spain, means that the people inhabiting the Caribbean today can trace their Atlanta, Georgia 30326 as a significant factor in preparing people from the Caribbean region (404) 239-5740 Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the ancestries to many parts of Africa, China, India, Spain, France, other Atlanta Garifuna Association Contact: Raoul
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