{"id":38057,"date":"2015-12-22T04:19:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38057"},"modified":"2017-03-27T19:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:44:40","slug":"finding-samuel-lowe-china-jamaica-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38057","title":{"rendered":"Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062331632\/finding-samuel-lowe\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HarperCollins<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-14<br \/>\n288 pages<br \/>\nTrimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.004 in (d)<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780062331632; ISBN 10: 0062331639<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 9780062331656; ISBN 10: 0062331655<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paula Williams Madison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062331632\/finding-samuel-lowe\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.harperapps.com\/covers\/9780062331632\/y648.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spanning four generations and moving between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a>, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman\u2019s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to her spiteful, jealous Jamaican mother, Nell Vera Lowe was cut off from her Chinese father, Samuel, when she was just a baby, after he announced he was taking a Chinese bride. By the time Nell was old enough to travel to her father\u2019s shop in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Ann%27s_Bay,_Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">St. Anne\u2019s Bay<\/a>, he\u2019d taken his family back to China, never learning what became of his eldest daughter. Bereft, Nell left Jamaica for New York to start a new life. But her Asian features set her apart from her <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem<\/a> neighbors and even her own children\u2014a difference that contributed to her feeling of loneliness and loss which she instilled in her only daughter, Paula.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, with a successful corporate career behind her and the arrival of her only grandchild raising questions about family and legacy, Paula decided to search for Samuel Lowe\u2019s descendants in China. With the support of her brothers and the help of encouraging strangers, Paula eventually pieced together the full story of her grandfather\u2019s life, following his story from China to Jamaica and back, and connecting with 300 surprised relatives who were overjoyed to meet her.<\/p>\n<p><em>Finding Samuel Lowe<\/em> is a remarkable journey about one woman\u2019s path to self-discovery. It is a story about love and devotion that transcends time and race, and a beautiful reflection of the power of family and the interconnectedness of our world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Finding Samuel Lowe<\/em> includes a 16-page black-and-white photo insert and photos in the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman\u2019s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1245,11,21,459,8,17,20],"tags":[221,680,80,17890,18322],"class_list":["post-38057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-biography","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-china","tag-harpercollins","tag-jamaica","tag-paula-williams-madison","tag-samuel-lowe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53000,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions\/53000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}