Johnny Zee / Songs for Our Daughters / The Feelgood Factor - ACE279.3

Women talking. Pregnant woman in rocking chair. Lisa Crook says people always ask where she’s from – half Guyanese and half English. Mavis Crook-Massey says she’s much lighter-skinned than her other children. Woman and daughter playing hand-clapping game. Carolyn Ebanks talking about mixed-race children, how she wants to give hers a balance of both cultures, and how she points out to them that images in Africa will be of black people while those in Britain will be of whites. Woman reading in dialect to her daughter. Ebanks talking about the need to find books with black characters, black dolls, etc. Woman and daughter. Crook-Massey talking about the difficulties of replacing her hsuband’s potato diet with rice back in the 1950s. Ebanks on making Grenadan gungo pea soup. Woman and daughter shopping for fruit, confronted by black and white people who all complain about the mixed race child. Crook on being light skinned. Her mother tells a story about two women talking about the pair of them. Crook talking about going to Mexico with a Jamaican friend who was ignored by the local people. Ebanks on not wanting her children to believe they were better because they were lighter skinned. Crook doesn’t want to be categorised. Ebanks’s children; she says whatever choices they make, she’ll be there to support them. Woman and daughter.