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Finding Samuel Lowe | Paula Madison | Talks at Google
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2016
- Retired media executive and entrepreneur, Paula Williams Madison, discusses her Chinese and Jamaican roots.
This powerful debut tells the story of Paula Williams Madison's Chinese grandfather, Samuel Lowe. He became romantically involved with a Jamaican woman, Paula's grandmother, and they lived together modestly with their daughter in his Kingston dry goods store, Chiney Shop. In 1920 his Chinese soon-to-be wife arrived to set up a "proper" family. When he requested to take his three-year-old daughter with him, Paula's jealous grandmother made sure that Lowe never saw his child again. That began an almost one-hundred-year break in their family.
Years later, the arrival of her only grandchild raising questions about family and legacy, Paula decided to search for Samuel Lowe's descendants in China. With the support of her brothers and the help of encouraging strangers, a determined Paula eventually pieced together her grandfather's life, following his story from China to Jamaica and back.
Her amazing search is vividly rendered. Paula has produced an emotional memoir that travels from Toronto to Jamaica to China. Using old documents, digital records, and referrals from the insular and interrelated Chinese-Jamaican community, she found three hundred long-lost relatives in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, China. She even located documented family lineage that traces back three thousand years to 1006 BC. Her wonderfully warm elders, all born in Jamaica and raised in China, shared the history and accomplishments of the Lowes in the East and the West, as well as the hardships and persecution suffered by her capitalist grandfather during the Communist era and the Cultural Revolution.
Finding Samuel Lowe is a remarkable journey about one woman's 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.
Very good talk about race relations. These conversations need to continue in 2021.
I think this is an interesting story about her life, but it's a not a "need" conversation.
Keep dreaming
Very good speaker. Very interesting talk. You held people spellbound. Really enjoy it.
From Singapore
Miss Paula. GM from New York. I bumped into your story this morning and was bought to tears. We have a connection. My grandfather and his siblings migrated to Mocho Clarendon Jamaica in 1936 from Cuba with his mother. His Sister Icelyn was married to the Lowe family. She has children in California and in Toronto Canada. I am thrilled you were able to find your family and I cant wait to read your book.
Also worth noting that formerly enslaved Africans in Jamaica were barred from wage labor. The state and plantation owners on the whole did not want to pay them for their once free labor and sought out other labor alternatives. It isn't just that the formerly enslaved African people "refused to work."
Mother took the identity of her children...powerful..🇯🇲
You are like my family,so kind.你就像是我的家人，好亲切。
Hakka was not the only Chinese ethnic-lingual group that didn't practice bounded feet among the rich elites. Manchu, Mongol, Beijing-Tianjin Han, Uyghur in the north also didn't practice bounded feet. But among the groups in SE China, they were the only group.
Also, Hakka was politically very active in SE Asia. Landing Republic was founded in 1777 by Hakka in Borneo, modern-day Indonesia and ended by the Dutch Colonialists in 1911 after the abdication of Qing Dynasty. Former Thai Prime Ministers Thaksin Chinnawat and his younger sister Yinglak Chinnawat come from a Thai-Hakka family, whereas Taiwanese Presidents Lee Teng-Hui and Tsai Ing-Wen are Taiwanese-Hakka. The most famous of all Hakka was Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, and like the Chinnawat, came from a Guangdong Hakka heritage.
Thank you love your input.
@@bybbah You are very welcome.
her mother is beautiful
Beautiful and Tragic
very beautiful and graceful.
Ms. Paula is also beautiful and brilliant.
Hearing about how Paula's mother was treated in Jamaica is heartbreaking, and the fact that she never knew her father who wanted her is even more so...
jamaicans love chinese jamaicans as there own they are feircely affectionate towards them !! you are not listening to ms maddison properly.
@@clevelandhinds1756 that is very true....Chinese Jamaican people are Jamaicans Full Stop...
Very interesting speech and life! She's a great speaker and I feel a good leader....
Thank you for telling your life story.
She reminds me of Viola Davis.
She even sounds like her. Even her mannerisms.
I was thinking the same thing. I think I will research her, I like her principles and style.
It was bugging me for such a long time who she reminded me of. Its amazing.
Love Paula for sharing her story.
This was a very interesting conversation
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I truly enjoyed this presentation. I am Garifuna, and so much of what was shared resonated with me. ❤
Wonderful story
She’s amazing
Excellent!
My great grandfather went to Cuba to cut sugar cane. He later moved to Boston in the mid 60s to lived with his son.
I'm from a Caribbean island and being mixed is just a part of life. I don't know anyone who is one thing.
@ 32:20 mark ...it was not Yusef Hawkins, it was Micheal Griffith. He was murdered in Howard Beach, Queens on December 20th, 1986 after being chased onto a highway by a mob of white men and hit by a car. There were three other Black men (not teenagers) with Stewart when the car broke down. Yusef Hawkins was shot to death on August 23rd 1989. He was with three other Black men when he was killed by a white mob.The Central Park jogger event happened on April 19th, 1989.
She mixed up the details, which surprised me as she is a news veteran.
Black Her-story 365. Incredible lecture
I wanted to see her mother photo would be nice if she can show us
Great story
Her manager told her not to speak to client again, but did the manager know she didn't tell the client she's black while being emphathetic🤔⏰
❤️
With respect to the hair example, it is beyond me how persons don't know how to respect personal space just because they see no issue. She was told not to touch the person's hair!
I am a Hakka From Thailand@ms.Lowe
History is NOT taught by the conquered but by the conquerorS 2021y Jan organic vs purposeful
LOL - My father told me the same about fighting :)
She's properly what the Olmecs look like in Mexico ----Black History
I thought you're going to talk about the process of finding your Chinese root, the twists and turns,.... But looks like you're off your topic. You're talking more about the race relation in general, not the finding your roots in specifics.
She did talk about her mother and why it was important to find her roots. The anecdotes portray the life she and her mother lived and how that shaped both her career journey and her personal life.
Buy the book and you'll find out.
Finding your roots always involve racism when people of color
It was a great biopic and speech. All was good until the part of Google discussion. This is the same Google who fired an employee who has a conservative leaning opinion, everything just sound bocus from there