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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 392–416.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Aisha A. Upton Azzam Abstract In the second half of the twentieth century, Black sororities began establishing chapters and social programs across the globe, an intentional social action that Aisha A. Upton Azzam conceptualizes as the Black sorority movement (BSM). In this piece, Upton Azzam...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
... this opportunity to reflect on and critically look at what kind of colonial narrative she contributed to by using certain terms that were not in line with her intentions and moreover contributed to the colonial narrative she herself is critical of. Likewise, Aisha Upton Azzam’s analysis of the Black sorority...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 94–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and broad vision of black women’s leadership in what has become a women-of-color–led human rights movement for reproductive justice today. Copyright © 2019 Joyce C. Follet 2019 contraception midwife/midwives/midwifery Negro Project reproduction reproductive justice From the colonial era...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of color feminisms as our standpoint. We center marginal voices and knowledges in our work because doing so is politically important in the development of student agency. As women of color who work with girls and women of color, we see #BlackLivesMatter as an inclusive movement that includes Black girls...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 March 2002
...-U.S. sculptor Anne Whitney. 16. It is not yet clear to me who commissioned these busts. I would look for these commissions from black racial uplift organizations such as the NAACP, Black Women's club movements, Black Colleges, sororities, and fraternities, or from wealthy Black or white patrons who...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 219–229.
Published: 01 March 2018
... circles. SisterSong's mission statement and "Principles of Unity" caution us to work collectively and in allyship with other women of color. The work cultivated in 1938 by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority emphasizes the integral role our historically Black civic and social organizations have played...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 226–256.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., 201), 228 SHAMEEM BLACK and it resonated with the renewed emotional fervor of women's movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Arguing for a universal understanding of feminism, in SisterhoodIs GlobalMorgan asserts that "women seem, crossculturally, to be deeply opposed to nationalism-at least as practiced...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
... by Asma'u's generations and those immediately preceding them in the so-called Sudanic Africa (black Africa). What did she do with this received form of the qasidah?Altogether she composed eight qasidahin Arabic, mostly in praise of the leadership of the Islamic community of the reformist's dreams...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 25–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
...: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . hooks bell . 1999 . “ Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness .” In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics , 145 – 53 . Boston : South End Press . “ Howard Women Hold...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2005
... to be particularly significant for the class-conscious Larsen, who lacked the family, sorority, and church connections that provided the foundation for the black middle and upper classes in the early twentieth century. Larsen did, however, obtain a higher level of social status when she married Elmer Imes, a doctor...