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Miller’s Rebirth opens with the artist flashing national insignias at a speed of 10 images per second—until the Jamaican banner becomes indistinguishable from the Confederate flag. Meanwhile, Miller plays Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock version of the “Star Spangled Banner,” which devolves the anthem into unrecognizable scratches of sound. Miller describes the montage as “a metaphor for what would happen if all these flags didn’t mean so much...
...child of a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel leader, Maya Arulpragasam moved to London at age 12 and discovered hip-hop. Now 28, she has produced a mini-masterpiece that merges Jamaican dancehall patois and Missy Elliott's stuttering rhythm with a political viewpoint entirely her own. She's not so eloquent in her anger as Public Enemy or so tuneful as the Clash, but it's a pretty impressive neighborhood for a debut...
...surprised by one bit of advice I received from my grandfather this past Christmas. He told me that he would advise against being in a long term relationship with someone “outside of our culture” (read: so choose someone who is black, and preferably Jamaican). This came as a big surprise from a family that rarely discusses race. Most Jamaicans identify less with being black than do black Americans, because there’s not much white to compare yourself to in Jamaica. Although all of the members of my family would say that they...
...from Boca Raton, when I think of home it’s not Louis Vuitton bags and sprawling, crowded shopping malls that come to mind. It’s the curried chicken and stew peas dinners and the fact when my mom gets angry her patois—the Jamaican accent—emerges in full force...
...Jamaica but in Boca Raton. There, we were the only black family in our gated community, and I was one of only a few black students in most of my high school classes. My life has been a compromise of cultures that didn’t always mesh well. Jamaican culture, sometimes to my parents’ dismay, has not always won the fight. I don’t know how to cook the meals that remind me of home. I like to shop more than I like to do most things. And when I go to Jamaica my younger...