{"id":2461,"date":"2009-10-25T20:35:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T20:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2016-10-11T00:17:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:17:32","slug":"salt-sweat-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"Salt-sweat & Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salt-sweat & Tears<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cinnamon Press<\/a>
\nMarch 2007
\n80 pages
\n21 x 14 x 0.8 cm
\nPaperback ISBN 10: 1905614187; ISBN-13: 978-1905614189<\/p>\n

Louisa Adjoa Parker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of Ghanaian-British descent Louisa Adjoa Parker explores issues of identity, belonging, family and relationships in raw, honest, but crafted pieces.<\/p>\n

Mulatto Girl<\/strong><\/p>\n

See the mulatto<\/a> girl walking
\ndown country lanes and fields, her
\nhead held high, her skin the colour
\nof caramel boiling on the stove.\u00a0 See her smile
\nin the knowledge she is not the first
\nto walk this green and pleasant
\ncountryside, she has history stirring within her limbs
\nshe has Africa’s heat and England’s cold rain
\npumping through her blood, her
\nDNA a beautiful mix of gene pools
\nscattered across continents.\u00a0 She is strong.
\nShe show Africa in a way the English hide.
\nShe shows an eighteenth century master’s love for slaves.
\nShe shows a slave’s contempt.
\nShe shows twentieth century people brave enough
\nto cross a line made of different tones of skin,
\nto love in spite of hate.<\/p>\n

See the mulatto girl walking
\ndown country lanes and fields, her head
\nheld high, her quadroon baby girls
\nheld on her hips, her hair thick and frizzed, lips
\nhalf full, there are no
\nwhite men dressing her in robes and jewels,
\nbut see her smile, see her sway, as she walks
\nwith her head held high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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