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Rum and Coca Cola

Reading Black History

February 24, 2021 ·

Deanne Achong, 2021

It's a little lost to history these days, but "Rum and Coca Cola" was an enormous hit for the Andrew Sisters in 1945. Their version offered to postwar Americans a singable, dance-able appropriation of Trinidadian calypso--just as Caribbean travel …

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Workin’ for the Yankee Dollar

August 29, 2020 ·

Workin' For the Yankee Dollar was created by Deanne Achong in Vancouver, Canada but concerns the cultural and military invasion of Trinidad by the US in the 1940's. The book illustrates and annotates the appropriation of Lord Invader's (Rupert …

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