{"id":55934,"date":"2018-03-18T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55934"},"modified":"2018-03-18T01:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T01:00:46","slug":"a-brutal-heritage-finally-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55934","title":{"rendered":"A Brutal Heritage Finally Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Brutal Heritage Finally Revealed<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Book Review<\/a>
\nThe New York Times<\/a>
\n2018-03-16<\/p>\n

Sheila A. Kohler<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>
\nKrystal A. Sital<\/a>
\nElwira Katarzyna Maciejewski<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

SECRETS WE KEPT: Three Women of Trinidad<\/strong><\/a>
\nBy Krystal A. Sital<\/a>
\n337 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $25.95.<\/p>\n

When Krystal Sital\u2019s<\/a> grandfather Shiva Singh suffers a cerebral hemorrhage<\/a>, her grandmother Rebecca, after 53 years of marriage, reacts with calm indifference. Sital, who reveres her tall, strong and generous grandfather, with his white hair and \u201cskin the color of a sapphire sky,\u201d spends much of her suspenseful memoir, \u201cSecrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad<\/a>,\u201d elucidating this response.<\/p>\n

With the family patriarch debilitated, Sital\u2019s grandmother and her mother are safe for the first time, able to share their secrets with Sital, who listens, her blood pumping to a \u201cchant I cannot forget.\u201d These vivid memories attack us as they do her, \u201cin waves.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…The Trinidad<\/a> depicted here is rife with prejudice and hate. Hostility persists between the Africans, brought as slaves, and the Indians, who arrived as indentured servants. Those of mixed race are called \u201cmulatto<\/a>,\u201d \u201cdougla<\/a>\u201d and \u201ccocopanyol<\/a>\u201d \u2014 \u201cthe words are hissed and spat at my family: My grandmother is mixed, my Indian grandfather is not.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Krystal Sital\u2019s grandfather Shiva Singh suffers a cerebral hemorrhage, her grandmother Rebecca, after 53 years of marriage, reacts with calm indifference. Sital, who reveres her tall, strong and generous grandfather, with his white hair and \u201cskin the color of a sapphire sky,\u201d spends much of her suspenseful memoir, \u201cSecrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad,\u201d elucidating this response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,21,8,20],"tags":[28163,28164,2640,28166,28167,2327,299],"class_list":["post-55934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-krystal-a-sital","tag-krystal-sital","tag-new-york-times","tag-sheila-a-kohler","tag-sheila-kohler","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-trinidad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55934","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=55934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55935,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55934\/revisions\/55935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}