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1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text file rda |
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Dreams of my grandfather -- Mothers and daughters -- Where love begins -- Growing up Williams -- Searching for Samuel Lowe -- Prosperity, family, education -- Samuel Lowe's twentieth century -- My three-thousand-year-old family : reunited at last -- Dreams of my grandfather. |
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"This powerful debut tells the story of Paula Williams Madison's Chinese grandfather, Samuel Lowe. He became romantically involved with a Jamaican woman, Paula's grandmother, and they lived together modestly with their daughter in his Kingston dry goods store, Chiney Shop. In 1920 his Chinese soon-to-be wife arrived to set up a "proper" family. When he requested to take his three-year-old daughter with him, Paula's jealous grandmother made sure that Lowe never saw his child again. That began an almost one-hundred-year break in their family."--publsher. |
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Chronicles the author's search for her maternal grandfather and her own self-identity, following her grandfather's journey from China to Jamaica and back, as she pieces together the full story of his life. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Madison, Paula Williams -- Family.
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Madison, Paula Williams. |
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Race identity.
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
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African American women -- Race identity.
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Hakka (Chinese people) -- Jamaica.
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Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
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African American women -- Race identity. |
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Families. |
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Hakka (Chinese people) |
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Racially mixed people. |
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Racially mixed people -- Race identity. |
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Jamaica. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Madison, Paula Williams. Finding Samuel Lowe New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] 9780062331632 (NjBwBT)bl2015015488 (OCoLC)883146092 |
| ISBN |
9780062331656 : $17.49 |
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0062331655 : $17.49 |
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