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Jamaican Americans


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    • Americans, Jamaican
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    • found: Work cat.: Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville. Nebraska, 2019:p. 4 of cover (born in Ghana; he later moved to Jamaica where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood; in 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska) (OCoLC)1112387342
    • found: South Carolina encyclopedia (Website), Sept. 28, 2023:Dawes, Kwame (Kwame Senu Neville Dawes was born in Ghana on July 28, 1962; his Ghanaian mother; his father, a Jamaican-born teacher who moved to Ghana in the 1940s; in 1971 the Dawes family moved to Kingston, Jamaica; B.A. in English from the University of the West Indies at Mona [in Kingston, Jamaica] in 1983)
    • found: Obi-Young, Otosirieze. Professor Kwame Dawes awarded [dollar sign]165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize, alongside seven others, via Brittle paper website, posted March 14, 2019, viewed Sept. 28, 2023(Kwame Dawes; Ghanaian-Jamaican-American poet; born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica)
    • found: Kwame Senu Neville Dawes author page, via Amazon.com, Sept. 28, 2023(Kwame Senu Neville Dawes; Ghanaian-born Jamaican/American poet, Kwame Dawes is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry and numerous books of fiction, non-fiction, criticism and drama and has edited nine anthologies and numerous books of poetry)
    • found: LCSH, Sept. 28, 2023(Jamaican Americans)
  • History Notes

    • [Established January 2024.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2023-09-28: new
    • 2024-01-09: revised
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