Kamille D. Whittaker
Excerpt: Time, and Other Matters
A gorgeous excerpt from John Edgar Wideman's "Art of Story," in The New Yorker "Stories are graves. Empty. Nothing there. All living and...
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Kamille D. Whittaker
Jul 13, 20181 min read
Final Day in Barbados: Bussa's Rebellion
Very early in the text “Intellectual Warfare” the late Jacob Carruthers wrote about how Jamaican-born Dutty Boukman made his way to Haiti...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jun 11, 20181 min read
Excerpts on Language
"Anytime people of different languages are trying to communicate, they'll create a Lingua Franca, or Pigeon language. Now, when a...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 13, 20182 min read
Notes on "Going Home"
I grew up between parched Southern Cali suburbs and maternal and paternal immediate and extended family in Jamaica. I was exposed to...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 13, 20183 min read
"Up Country": Bois Content, Jamaica
"Oh, let's go back to the start." We are, and have always been, on African time. The practice of mourning infused with the celebration of...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 6, 20183 min read
The Blueprint: The Boxcar Grocer
Although The Boxcar Grocer has closed its doors, Alison and Alphonzo Cross's shared insights about the responsibility behind being the...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 6, 20183 min read
Food Abundance: MaituFoods and Grow Where You Are on Keeping Your Gardens Close
If Eugene Cooke and wife JoVonna Cooke’s big ideas could be distilled into a single mantra, it would be: “Keep your garden close” and you...
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