![]() ![]() The family history is littered with violence-before being beaten in the park, Alfred did the hitting around here. And, oh, what a family to explore: youngest son Dirk is a live-at-home skinhead who used to torture mice when just a wee lad daughter Shirley might marry a dapper black named Kojo (he calls her his pink, pale pearl he’s her “black, dark, beautiful black, a black with the sheen of coal or grapes”) wife May loves her husband and everyone else, but just can’t understand all these politics going on around her and other son Darren is off to America for legitimate opportunity. When the impossibly named Alfred White-caretaker at Albion Park, a place that comes to represent what’s left of British orderliness-is hospitalized after an altercation with some blacks while on duty, the aftermath of his recovery is the perfect catalyst for an examination of racism, UK-style. The eighth from Britisher Gee ( Christopher and Alexandra, 1992, etc.) confronts race and family but feels like Styrofoam: it takes up lots of space, but most of it’s air. ![]()
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