Abstract Mary Chin, an American with Trinidadian and Chinese heritage discusses her mixed background and family heritage, including the cultural differences between Chinese-Trinidadians and Chinese people. Her mother came from a small town in Trinidad and her father came from China but moved to Trinidad and married her mother there. Her grandfather came from Venezuela but moved to Trinidad for political reasons. Her grandmother was Caribbean-Indian, and later remarried a Chinese man after her husband...

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Randolph Ayow Degannes talks about his life growing up in Trinidad.

Abstract Rose Lowe was born in Jamaica. She talks about the life of her father and how her family ended up in Jamaica. Her grandfather moved to Jamaica with the goal of becoming a business owner, but he died when her father, the youngest, was only six months old. The oldest brother of her father stays in Jamaica, but to get help raising her eight children his grandmother returned to China. The eldest brother of his father does well in Jamaica, and soon his remaining brothers and he moved back to...

Abstract Poet activist Staceyann Chin shares how different aspects of her identity, especially her hapa Afro -Chinese Jamaican identity, have shaped her life and continue to inform her experiences. Her mother was a poor Black Jamaican woman and her father was a wealthy Chinese businessman. Ms. Chin explains that because Jamaican society is highly stratified by social class and skin color, she was anomalous as a fair-skinned but poor child without parents. She had always known she was ethnically...

Abstract Sylvia Seid is the sister in law and wife of the men who founded what is now considered a Chinatown cultural trademark - The Chinatown Ice-cream Factory. Of Peruvian and Chinese descent, Seid describes her upbringing and her childhood growing up in Peru and the States. She also discusses the evolution of the ice-cream business from the late 1970s to the early twentieth century and how it has transformed from being the once tourist destination to the now localized sweet-treat icon it is known...

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Trinidadian visual artist, Todd Ayoung, discusses growing up in the States as a biracial immigrant of Chinese-Indian descent and how his art grapples with themes of reverse racism, the commodification of ethnicity, and the concept of community.

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Betty Chou describes growing up in Colombia and the States as impoverished child in a family of 7. She recalls the feelings of isolation and displacement she experienced as a Chinese living up in Colombia, and as a Colombian in the States.

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Interviewer is speaking in Spanish.

Abstract A family history based in Cuba: Her father, who is Chinese, came to Cuba in the 20th century and married to a Cuban lady. The interviewee was the smallest child among the 6 kids in her family; she is 42 years old now and lives in Havana. She spoke mostly Spanish, basic English, some French, studied Russian before, and studied Cantonese before for years. Her father came in the year of 1920, when he was 20-something. He came to Cuba for personal economic interests, spoke few Spanish, and...

Abstract Yvonne Wong is a woman who grew up in Jamaica. She was born to a Chinese father and a Jamaican woman of mixed ancestry, African and European. Yvonne talks about growing up in Jamaica and her early recollections of living there. She recounts how her father was a gambler and lost his first business as a gambling debt. She further talks about how her parents different ethnicities led to different traditions and cultural values. Her father wanted her to work in the shop while her mother...