One day, after her husband had died, she was traveling on a train to visit her daughter, 她的丈夫去世后,她乘火车前往女儿家探望, and she met and took an interested in a light-skinned man in the same railway car. 她在火车上遇见...
If, as often happens, children are of different shades of color in a family, the Jamaican sociologist Fernando Henriques once wrote: 正如经常发生的那样,如果一个家庭里的孩子们的肤色深浅不同,牙买加社会学家费尔南多...
My grandmother was a remarkable woman. 我的祖母是一个很了不起的女人。 But it is important to remember that a steady upward path upon which the Fords embarked began with a morally complicated act. 但更重要的是,与福特家事业稳...
In the 1950s, the Jamaican census bureau did a breakdown of all of the lawyers in the country according to their skin tone. 下面的图表是对20世纪50年代牙买加律师和国会议员这两种职业以肤色进行的统计分类分类。 Peop...
Ideally, they would try to be artisans. Remember, Jamaica has sugar plantations, 理想的话,他们将会成为技工。记住,牙买加有糖料种植园, which are very different from the cotton plantations you find in the American South. 这些...
They lived the much easier life of working in the house. 她们在房子里工作, They were the ones most likely to be freed. 享受安逸的生活。 So many mulatto mistresses were left substantial fortunes in the wills of white property owners 她们...
Daisy Nation was from the northwestern end of Jamaica. 戴西纳森来自牙买加的西北边陲, Her great-grandfather was William Ford. 他伟大的祖父是威廉福特, He was from Island, and he arrived in Jamaica in 1784, having bought a c...
The year my aunt applied happened to be one of the girl years. She was lucky. My mother was not. 我姑妈取得的那年是女生年,她非常幸运。 My mother was faced with passage to England, room and board and living expenses, and tuition at...