[3] Her university experience speaks to the "double jeopardy" of "navigating both race and gender within whiteness", embodying "the simultaneous invisibility and hyper-visibility" of being a black woman in Edinburgh during the 1910s.
[9] After Gordon qualified in 1918, he and Clara moved to Kinguissie, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, where he worked as a doctor,[12] and their next two children – twins Joyce and Evelyn – were born.
[13] The couple returned to the Caribbean in 1921, and Gordon worked briefly in Trinidad, then moved on to Dominica, where he became chief medical supervisor, and where their daughter Marjorie (the mother of Moira Stuart) was born in 1921.
[15] Despite numerous legal battles with her former husband, Clara successfully brought up her daughters as a single mother: Barbara studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Joyce trained as a nurse in England and subsequently moved to the USA, Evelyn trained as a beautician and moved to New York, while Marjorie became a nurse in London, eventually returned to Bermuda and on her retirement joined her youngest daughter in Nova Scotia, Canada.
"[20] The brothers did not complete their medical studies due to financial difficulties; Hakim became an ethnologist, travelling the world with his wife and children,[21] and Ken Gordon went on to become a successful jazz musician in London,[22][23][24] forming a vocal group called the Four Tune-Tellers, before joining another group, the Three Just Men, alongside calypsonian George Browne and Horace Dawson, "presenting a repertoire that ranged from spirituals to bebop".