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'This story is the result of long hours of delving into the pasts
of my nanny and my ma. I hope it will give some insight into the
experiences of one family of colour in Ireland today. Most of all,
I just want to start a conversation, because once people come
together to talk, the possibilities are endless.' Jade Jordan Jade
Jordan's grandmother, Kathleen, left Ireland for England in the
late 1950s to train as a nurse. While there, she fell in love and
married a Jamaican man. They had two sons and a daughter,
Dominique, and settled in London's diverse Walthamstow. But when
Kathleen decided to return home to Dublin, she discovered that the
colour of her children's skin set them apart - and that their new
lives would be very different to the ones they had known. Here, in
this honest, warm-hearted and often humorous multi-generational
memoir, Kathleen, Dominique and her daughter Jade each tell their
story. From Kathleen's determination to raise her children with
love and security in inner-city Dublin, to Dominique's struggle to
figure out how she fit in as a young Black teenager, to Jade's own
experiences as a Black woman growing up in twenty-first-century
Ireland, Nanny, Ma & Me is a story about race in a country of
contradictions. At its heart lies a tale of the power of community,
love and three women for whom family is everything.
In'Becoming a Life Change Artist', consultant, artist &
creative catalyst Fred Mandell shares with psychologist, coach
& leading authority on organizational change, Kathleen Jordan,
an original approach to reinventing oneself, at any stage of life.
'This story is the result of long hours of delving into the pasts
of my nanny and my ma. I hope it will give some insight into the
experiences of one family of colour in Ireland today. Most of all,
I just want to start a conversation, because once people come
together to talk, the possibilities are endless.' Jade Jordan Jade
Jordan's grandmother, Kathleen, left Ireland for England in the
late 1950s to train as a nurse. While there, she fell in love and
married a Jamaican man. They had two sons and a daughter,
Dominique, and settled in London's diverse Walthamstow. But when
Kathleen decided to return home to Dublin, she discovered that the
colour of her children's skin set them apart - and that their new
lives would be very different to the ones they had known. Here, in
this honest, warm-hearted and often humorous multi-generational
memoir, Kathleen, Dominique and her daughter Jade each tell their
story. From Kathleen's determination to raise her children with
love and security in inner-city Dublin, to Dominique's struggle to
figure out how she fit in as a young Black teenager, to Jade's own
experiences as a Black woman growing up in twenty-first-century
Ireland, Nanny, Ma & Me is a story about race in a country of
contradictions. At its heart lies a tale of the power of community,
love and three women for whom family is everything.
When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he
left behind a mostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been
working for the last decade. Jordan's daughter, Kathleen - with the
help of her brothers and mother -took up the task of editing and
completing the book. A Boy from Georgia - the result of this
posthumous father-daughter collaboration - chronicles Hamilton
Jordan's childhood in Albany, Georgia, charting his moral and
intellectual development as he gradually discovers the complicated
legacies of racism, religious intolerance, and southern politics,
and affords his readers an intimate view of the state's wheelers
and dealers. Jordan's middle-class childhood was bucolic in some
ways and traumatizing in others. As Georgia politicians battled
civil rights leaders, a young Hamilton straddled the uncomfortable
line between the southern establishment to which he belonged and
the movement in which he believed. Fortunate enough to grow up in a
family that had considerable political clout within Georgia, Jordan
went into politics to put his ideals to work. Eventually he became
a key aide to Jimmy Carter and was the architect of Carter's
stunning victory in the presidential campaign of 1976; Jordan later
served as Carter's chief of staff. Clear eyed about the triumphs
and tragedies of Jordan's beloved home state and region, A Boy from
Georgia tells the story of a remarkable life in a voice that is
witty, vivid, and honest.
When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he
left behind a mostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been
working for the last decade. Jordan's daughter, Kathleen-with the
help of her brothers and mother-took up the task of editing and
completing the book. A Boy from Georgia the result of this
posthumous father-daughter collaboration chronicles Hamilton
Jordan's childhood in Albany, Georgia, charting his moral and
intellectual development as he gradually discovers the complicated
legacies of racism, religious intolerance, and southern politics,
and affords his readers an intimate view of the state's wheelers
and dealers. Jordan's middle-class childhood was bucolic in some
ways and traumatizing in others. As Georgia politicians battled
civil rights leaders, a young Hamilton straddled the uncomfortable
line between the southern establishment to which he belonged and
the movement in which he believed. Fortunate enough to grow up in a
family that had considerable political clout within Georgia, Jordan
went into politics to put his ideals to work. Eventually he became
a key aide to Jimmy Carter and was the architect of Carter's
stunning victory in the presidential campaign of 1976; Jordan later
served as Carter's chief of staff. Clear eyed about the triumphs
and tragedies of Jordan's beloved home state and region, A Boy from
Georgia tells the story of a remarkable life in a voice that is
witty, vivid, and honest.
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