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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 427–452.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Robert J. Patterson Abstract This article examines the official Black Lives Matter Movement (the Black Lives Matter Global Network) as a point of departure to argue that Black Lives Matter (BLM) in general expands our epistemological framework for thinking about black freedom movements, black...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 300–305.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Abstract In the long tradition of black women protecting and honoring black women, Jasmine Richards, a Black Lives Matter organizer in Pasadena California, was part of a group of activists who intervened in the arrest of a participant in a peace March in Pintroesca Parkin...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Kia M. Q. Hall Abstract What is the role of feminist scholar-activists in contemporary Black freedom movements such as Black Lives Matter? This article proposes a Transnational Black Feminist framework as a theoretical complement to grassroots activism in Black communities. The proposed framework...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Wouldn’t my very resistance be heroically grand If only, I were a man? #KorrynGaines #SandraBland Black women resistance lynching police brutality Black Lives Matter Say Her Name Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 ...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... ) as the first abyss encountered by newly enslaved Africans, proves an apt metaphor for the four-hundred-year journey of African mothers who bear and/or rear children whose very right to be remains a matter of contestation in public discourse, even in the era in which we assert that Black lives matter. As Dána...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 207–211.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Black people again faced the highest rates of those killings. The U.S. police force kills more people in a few days than police in other nations kill in one year. 5 It was this outrageous crisis of police brutality that sparked the Black Lives Matter Movement. But did you know that Brazil may lead...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter . Brooklyn : Verso Press . Chomsky Noam . 2000 . Chomsky on MisEducation . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield . Christian Charles . 1998 . Black Saga: The African American Experience. A Chronology . New York : Basic Civitas . Cleage...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 October 2020
... not protect Cuban women and girls from gender-based violence; indeed, rates of violence against women in Cuba are greater than or on par with those of Chile, Panama, and Peru. Similarly, in his essay “Between Protest and Politics: Black Lives Matter Movement(s) for Black Lives,” Robert J. Patterson argues...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2020
... his victim. Within days, the video of Mr. Floyd’s death became the spark that lit the tinderbox that the president and his nationalist supporters have been fearing yet fueling. In June, massive national and international Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality erupted, campaigns to defund...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): vii–xvii.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Contemporary Black Activism," Kia M.Q. Hall explores the role of feminist scholar-activists in contemporary Black freedom movements such as Black Lives Matter. The lesson plan offers a closer look at TBF and how it can combine contemporary notions of activism with historic ideas of freedom to teach movement...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 548–558.
Published: 01 December 2020
... explores the role of feminist scholar-activists in contemporary Black freedom movements such as Black Lives Matter. The lesson plan offers a closer look at TBF and how it can combine contemporary notions of activism with historic ideas of freedom to teach movement art. Building upon the work...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 180–203.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Lives Matter protests that erupted during the summer of 2020 brought all of these tensions to the forefront, illuminating the pervasiveness of racism in Nordic logics of exceptionalism, on the one hand, but also the liberatory potential embodied and mobilized by our Black/African diasporic communities...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 April 2023
... renaming celebration, several hundred protestors gathered outside the Humboldt building, riding the energy of spring protests with banners that read “TEAR IT DOWN,” alongside “Black Lives Matter.” There were flags with Black power fists, signs with the names of Black people who have been killed by police...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 335–357.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832–1929 . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Enomoto Joy . 2017 . “ Where Will You Be? Why Black Lives Matter in the Hawaiian Kingdom .” Ke Ka‘upu Hehi ‘Ale (blog), February 1 . https://hehiale.wordpress.com/2017...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, proclaims itself antiracist and draws on the North American vocabulary of the civil rights, Black power, and Black Lives Matter movements to mark its constituency as Black (aka Muslim) Turks. The appropriation of a discourse of antiracism garners legitimacy and lends support...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 455–479.
Published: 01 October 2022
... demonstrates how Black life weathers beyond the afterlives of slavery, even in spaces of impending death, terror, and erasure. In this interplay between life and death, one might also ask, what does it mean to simultaneously tend to both the living and the dead, a “ghostly matter” (Gordon 1997...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
... or segregating into enclaves for self-preservation. An emphasis on mourning means recognizing that it takes shape in different ways. There is the public mourning of Black Lives Matter, appearing in material culture on black T-shirts with the names of those gunned down by the state; these are often worn...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 40–64.
Published: 01 December 2016
... coming out. Categorization of epidemic as a national crisis with relationship of topic to Black Lives Matter movement. SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITTEN TEXTS Topic Rachel Jeantel's treatment by media outlets Texts "Rachel Jeantel Gets the Trayvon Martin Treatment" (Peters 2013) Description Commentary...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 December 2016
... hash tag right after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin trial. According to Alicia Garza, "Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of Black folks...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 52–81.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., Black Lives Matter is entangled with official discourses of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. If the analytic power of relationality enables us to perform “radical coalition work,” we must recognize that political alliances between Indigenous and diasporic communities are more powerful when...
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