Hild 12 Discussion 8

The trailer to “Coming to you, Minu” reminds us of the important role that music plays in fights for migrant justice. Why do you think this is the case? How can we connect this question to the first reading you did in this course by Goffe, who also talked about the relationship between Chinese shopkeepers in Jamaica and music?

Music might relate to different kinds of emotions or mentality, and under the context of immigrant identity and justice, it evokes their call for justice and empathy in terms of sorrow, anger or passion. Reggae serves this purpose as well, which in forms of happiness bonds two races together and conveys this positive attitude under the political conflicts and sufferings, especially for inferiority of Chinese immigrants and Jamaicans under the colonization.