{"id":30199,"date":"2013-04-07T04:41:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T04:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30199"},"modified":"2013-04-07T04:41:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T04:41:47","slug":"the-mulatto-murders-lilys-son-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30199","title":{"rendered":"The Mulatto Murders Lily&#8217;s Son (1948)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyrepository.miami.edu\/anthurium\/vol8\/iss1\/9\" target=\"_blank\">The Mulatto Murders Lily&#8217;s Son (1948)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyrepository.miami.edu\/anthurium\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyrepository.miami.edu\/anthurium\/vol8\/iss1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 8: Issue 1<\/a> (Bahamian Literature) (2011-04-22)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyrepository.miami.edu\/anthurium\/vol8\/iss1\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Article 9<\/a><br \/>\n2 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nicobethel.net\/blogworld\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolette Bethel<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>The College of the Bahamas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1. Irvin goes to calm a raging friend<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Irvin&#8217;s fishmeat skin gleamed white despite the dark,<br \/>\ndespite the shot that hung the blackout curtains on his world.<br \/>\nHis blood unmade the rage of Bert Molina, black enough<br \/>\nto blot the whiteness Irvin carried like a flag.<\/p>\n<p>The gunstock bruised Bert&#8217;s collarbone. The bullet<br \/>\nburned the air the way rage burned that space<br \/>\nbetween his lungs where no-one held his heart.<br \/>\nThe blood wrapped Irvin\u2019s brightskin in the night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire poem <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyrepository.miami.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&amp;context=anthurium\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mulatto Murders Lily&#8217;s Son (1948) Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 8: Issue 1 (Bahamian Literature) (2011-04-22) Article 9 2 pages Nicolette Bethel, Assistant Professor of Sociology The College of the Bahamas 1. Irvin goes to calm a raging friend Irvin&#8217;s fishmeat skin gleamed white despite the dark, despite the shot that hung the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,8],"tags":[14309,5189,14308],"class_list":["post-30199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","tag-anthurium","tag-anthurium-a-caribbean-studies-journal","tag-nicolette-bethel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}