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Twin of Twins
Black Children and identity What makes a Black person Black? Colorism The Black British Experience through the Eyes of a Jamaican Can White Foster Parents Equip their Black Children to deal with racism? Jamaica Jamaica
The Black diaspora refers to the communities throughout the world that are descended from the historic movement of peoples from Africa, predominantly to the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, among other areas around the globe. Jamaica’s majority population is predominantly Black, so how does their presence impact their communities worldwide?
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Book Club - Chick
Hannah Lowe’s first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chineseblack Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that took its toll on his physical and mental health. 'Chick' was his gambling nickname. A shadowy figure in her childhood, Chick was only half known to her until she entered the night world of the old man as a young woman. The name is the key to poems concerned with Chick's death, the secret history of his life in London, and her perceptions of him as a father. With London as their backdrop, Hannah Lowe's deeply personal narrative poems are often filmic in effect and brimming with sensory detail in their evocations of childhood and coming-of-age, love and loss of love, grief and regret. 'Chick opens with a powerful sequence of poems centred around the poet’s memories of her Chinese/black Jamaican father – a complex, larger than life character who came to London in the late 40s and eked out a living as, among other things, a gambler. But the book is very much more than a personal reminiscence and family history. This is a collection cross-hatched with myth and history, a hymn to London as much as to its characters. Though all the poems have a strong, vividly cinematographic line, they are also beautifully lyrical – sung stories, offering us the glimpsed lives of strangers and lovers. But however poignant and moving it may be, the collection remains doggedly celebratory of life itself, of people and place, loved and remembered. Each poem takes us a little further into the mystery of lives in a world that is as incomprehensible as it is unforgettable.
Cinema Scene – “Ching Pow Far East Yardies”
Musical Notes: Twin of Twins
While growing up in abject poverty the twins developed an avid interest in dancehall and reggae music. The music confirmed while it simultaneously took them away from the negativity of their situation. Paul (tu lox) Gaynor by the time he was 14 years old was a fullfledged fashion designer who would sew everything as long as it was made from fabric he even sewed their school uniforms at the time. The twins were inseparable as they went everywhere and did almost everything together. Patrick ( curly lox) Gaynor from a very early age started writing songs and singing them at school while his brother Paul would knock the benches to provide the beats. Patrick had an upbeat happy go lucky personality and was always the more outgoing of the twins who could very much relate to Professor Nuts his mentor who at the time was the innovator of dancehall comedy. The duo is best known for The Stir It Up series from Volumes 4 to 8; Volume 4 was never officially released, but bootleggers helped to make it available to the public, thus sparking a demand for official releases of the Twins' work. As a result, Volume 5, "Crucifiction of the Ghetto," was released in December 2004, to much critical and commercial
success. Volume 6, "Resurrection of the Ghetto," was released in 2006, followed by Volume 7, "Til Death Do Us Part," a year later. Volume 8, "Trial and Crosses," was released in June 2009. The premise of said fictional talk show: Ian Lyad (pronounced "lie-ad" according to the Jamaican patois) is the cultured and intelligent talk show host who has to put up with the antics of his co-hosts and guests, who all come from a wide crosssection of cultural, political and social divides. His major cohost, Mr. Muta (pronounced "moo-tah"), does most of the talking during the interviews, often antagonizing the guests and Ian himself, but also providing biting commentary on a lot of things wrong with Jamaica's developing musical and social culture and discussing methods to enact the muchneeded changes craved by the country. www.TwinofTwins.com