A multiracial Chinese and Afro-Jamaican, Marie Yvonne Chong decribes her southern Chinese family's migration to Jamaica, growing up in a large upper class family, her immigration to New York in 1969 and her racial identity in the United States. Her ancestors migrated to Jamaica as indentured servants and became entrepreneurs afterwards. Her father, a wholesaler and Justice of the Peace, is a Jamaican-born Chinese and her mother is hapa Chinese and Afro-Jamaican. Marie and her seven siblings all attended a convent school with other Chinese Jamaicans students but she was teased about her Chinese heritage. In 1969, she immigrated to New York for college and later sponsored her parents' immigration to Miami after they sold their business due to Jamaican political instability. Ms. Chong faced a severe culture shock upon her arrival in New York and today she struggles to raise her children with the best aspects of Chinese, Jamaican and American culture. There is a constant clash between her effort to hold on to her identity and the values she was raised with and acculturation to the United States. In Jamaica, her Afro-Chinese Jamaican identity was normal because there were other Afro-Chinese Jamaicans but in the United States she is an oddity and "read" as Black.