ABSTRACT
Sarah was one of the first people the author met when she moved to Bristol. She worked in the library in one of the community centers in Thatchapee. Their friendship unfolded gradually, although like her sister Akousa, immediately she was struck by her warmth and exuberance. Sarah is very aware of the ways in which she is telling her story and how this approach will affect the way her "audience" receives what she has to recount. Sarah and her sister Akousa both paint amazing portraits of their own-working class Irish/Caribbean family's life. In Sarah's story, the people who say, "Nigger come polish me boots," are older boys from her school, who may or may not be skinheads. She does not mention this detail. This recollection is an evocative example of the awakening of an emergent empowered and reconciled global/diasporic Black consciousness in two métisse sisters.
