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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Jocelyn Fenton Stitt Abstract The relationship of the enslaved past to the present has been an ongoing topic within African diaspora studies generally, and within Black feminist studies specifically. This essay traces a Black feminist genealogy rooted in Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Selina Makana Abstract The assertion that the mid-twentieth century Black freedom struggles across the African diaspora was a masculine era is one that continues to strike a chord with many African women whose voices have remained absent from the rhetoric on national liberation struggles across...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Julie Iromuanya Abstract The politically voiceless, economically visible, and racially indeterminate middleman minority status as noted by sociologists Edna Bonacich and Pyong Gap Min hardly comes to mind when scholars envision women of Africa and the African Diaspora. Still, when considering...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 491–506.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Daphne Lamothe Abstract In The Fisher King , Paule Marshall depicts urban spatial and social relations that resonate with the psychic and social ruptures of the African Diaspora. The novel’s central characters comprise a blended family with Southern African American and Caribbean roots. They reckon...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 94–120.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Abstract In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, rarely are black women, especially poor black women, considered leaders of social movements, much less political theorists. While Afro-Brazilian women are at the very heart of the struggle for urban housing and land rights...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 September 2016
... contributions in contemporary theoretical debates in African Diaspora and Latin American Studies underscores the need to deemphasize the United States and English-speaking experiences in our discussions of global Black intellectual traditions, while simultaneously foregrounding black women's contributions...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lauren J. Gantz Abstract This article argues that in her novel, At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999), Dionne Brand uses archives/archiving as a trope by which to trace slavery's aftereffects on the Caribbean and its diasporas. African diasporic authors and critics have long emphasized...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 130–143.
Published: 01 September 2008
... spatial practice that seeks to disrupt the gendered, raced, and classed disciplining of space. I hope to place this work in conversation with the scholarly literature that has been written on the African diaspora. I'll follow this with a review of the literature on sound/sound-making and its relationship...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 490–509.
Published: 01 October 2024
... as native French; terminology employed by right-leaning political groups in France) but also in the North African diaspora (see de Neuville 2021 ). At the same time, in the context of global Islamophobia, criticizing anti-Blackness present within North Africa and its diaspora can be challenging because any...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 236–240.
Published: 01 March 2006
... for the presidential elections in Egypt. A multilingual, widely traveled scholar and activist, OBI OMA NNAEMEKA is Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African/African Diaspora Studies and a former Director of the Women's Studies Program at Indiana University, Indianapolis. Professor Nnaemeka is the founder...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 March 2002
... who transgresses national and political boundaries and is empowered by inserting Black and female voices into a transnational Black public sphere .1 I use this term to describe Black women's experiences in the African Diaspora, and their unique EDMON IA LEWI S, FOREVERFREE, 186 7. > z ~ .0 0 X forms...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 225–227.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS dann j. Broyld is a visiting assistant professor of Public History & African American History at Central Connecticut State University .. He earned his PhD in nineteenth-century United States and African Diaspora history at Howard...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2006
...." Meridianiss also fortunate to have had the guiding hand of coeditor Dr. Obioma Nnaemeka for this issue. A Nigerian-born scholar and activist who holds leadership positions in a number ofNGOs and has convened the "Women in Africa and the African Diaspora" international conferences, Dr. Nnaemeka is presently...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 219–231.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and the African Diaspora: A Reader , 2nd edition, edited by Terborg-Penn Rosalyn and Rushing Andrea Benton , 3 – 21 . Washington, DC : Howard University Press . Terborg-Penn Rosalyn . 1996 . “ Women in the African Diaspora: An Overview of an Interdisciplinary Research Conference...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2015
... here is therefore clearly positioned as an African diaspora interloper who claims primacy for African diaspora reconstructions of knowledge-systems and cultures inside and outside of the continent of Africa. This becomes critical given the prominence of the Yoruba imperium, as J. Lorand Matory has...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
Published: 01 October 2023
... in the diaspora. But her perspective was also punctuated by her own movement between these “new world” African diasporic communities and her practice of documenting the quotidian qualities of Black women’s belonging in these spaces. For example, in the 1930s her studies of women’s and girls’ work, education...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 118–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Santos used the concept "FeminismNo egro Diasp6rico("Diasporic Black Feminism) to designate diverse black feminisms existing in the Diaspora. She identified five feminist projects: the Afro-Latin American, the Afro-Caribbean, the Afro- American, the African, and that of British Black women. In her...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 163–164.
Published: 01 March 2007
... include the racial and transnational dimensions offeminist theory and politics; the intersections of race, class, gender, and post-colonial studies within the African diaspora and transational Latina contexts; and anti-racist feminist pedagogy within the U.S.academy. ELIZABETHJACOBSworks in the Department...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2016
... become visible as a tradition of thought and politics. The field of Black Women's History, which is increasingly recasting and narrating histories of women in the African Diaspora, is still nascent in Latin America. A recent collection co-edited by Aurora Vergara-Figueroa and Carmen Cosme-Puntiel...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2016
... is the African Diaspora, Lily Martinez's is that of the border an interstice between cultures where instability, illegalities, and other anomalies are perceived to transpire. In her essay, "Post-Colonial Consciousness and the Erotic in Iracema: Uma Transa Amazeinica and Caballero," she compares the border...
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