ABSTRACT
The St. Vincent Education and Cultural Club, begun in 1977, had 26 active members, whose average ages ranged from their mid-twenties to their early forties, and an annual budget of close to $10,000. Most of the Club’s members had their origins in the middle classes of St. Vincent and had come to New York after 1965. The goals of the Club, to enhance the educational and cultural life of Vincentians in both St. Vincent and New York, were explicitly transnational. Like many of the Vincentian and Grenadian voluntary organizations begun around 96the same time, the Club, through its practices in both New York and St. Vincent, was knitting together a membership in New York that was self-consciously Vincentian and that could act in both St. Vincent and New York.
