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...surprised that Allen C. Soong had such strong feelings about the portrayal of men in "The Joy Luck Club" that he felt compelled to write an editorial about it. While he refrains from making the outrageously venomous comments that author Frank Chin directed at Maxine Hong Kingston for supposedly maligning Chinese men, Soong similarly mistakes a focus on Asian female voices for the erasure of Asian men's diversity...
...Marley, a poor Jamaican from Kingston's Trenchtown slum, who brought reggae to international prominence in the '70s with his albums Catch a Fire, Rastaman Vibration and Exodus. An outspoken champion of racial equality and social justice, Marley was also a tireless promoter of Rastafarianism, the pro-African sect whose followers grow their hair into long, matted dreadlocks and smoke marijuana, or ganja, as part of a religious rite...
After Marley died of a brain tumor in 1981 at 36, a new generation of Trenchtown youths began to forge a harder, denser style of reggae called dancehall. Reflecting the desperate times in Kingston's ghettos, dancehall lyrics were charged with angry diatribes glorifying guns, drugs and sex, and sung often in a fast, talky style called "toasting." On Minute to Pray, Mad Cobra warns, "Original bad boy have no mercy/ Original bad boy run the country/ Them get a minute to pray and a second to die . . . We no miss the target...
This white Canadian ragamuffin's blazing debut album, Twelve Inches of Snow, fuses Jamaican dance hall and American hip-hop into the irresistibly slick mix many other musicians have been aiming for. SNOW'S groove-heavy beats and scatlike raps are burning up the charts from Kingston to New York to Toronto. Darrin O'Brien, who would rather be known by his ghetto moniker, Snow, is an alumnus of Toronto's housing projects and the Ontario penal system. Rap elitists who remember Vanilla Ice may doubt Snow's street credentials. But they need only listen to Snow...
Several days later, when the post-election riots in Kingston, the capital, had subsided and the death count had been tallied, a few military officers ambled through the Port Antomo streets. On election day, of course, we hadn't left the safe seclusion of our house. We had played croquet...