The Hakka People of Jamaica: How One Woman is Refusing to Let Her People be Forgotten

There is a photograph  not on a gallery wall, not in a museum, sitting somewhere in a worn album in a Scarborough home, of a woman who crossed an ocean so that the generations after her could rest. Jephina Barkie refers to her as “Popo” (grandmother in the Hakka language). She grew up in a […]

The Hakka People of Jamaica: How One Woman is Refusing to Let Her People be Forgotten
There is a photograph  not on a gallery wall, not in a museum, sitting somewhere in a worn album in a Scarborough home, of a woman who crossed an ocean so that the generations after her could rest. Jephina Barkie refers to her as “Popo” (grandmother in the Hakka language). She grew up in a […]