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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Kenly Brown; Lashon Daley; Derrika Hunt Abstract This article examines Black/Girlhood Imaginary, a transdisciplinary methodology that merges performance studies, Black studies, and education to research and theorize the capacious archives of Black girlhood. What the authors term Black/Girlhood...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2022
... collectively written, transdisciplinary, and multi-methodological Counterpoint essay, “Disruptive Ruptures: The Necessity of Black/Girlhood Imaginary,” coins the term “‘Black forward slash Girlhood’ to signal both an abstract configuration and a lived embodied experience of Black girlness that is in dialogue...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 528–547.
Published: 01 October 2024
...-making, while using speculative elements such as transforming into a railroad to demonstrate the intractable social death of enslavement. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Smith College 2024 Afro-Pessimism speculative fiction Black girlhood Bildungsroman In the 1992 documentary...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Patricia Ann Lott Abstract This essay analyzes Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) as a book of lamentations for its bereaved black subject’s mother loss, social death, and prematurely ended girlhood. More specifically, it examines a daughter’s devastation over her natal alienation, violent...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
...: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera , and Sheila and Sandra Ortiz Taylor’s ( 1996 ) collaboration Imaginary Parents , both of which contain a combination of text and photograph and posit a nonlinear temporality. These Chicana/o texts serve as queer and culturally specific material archives. Queer...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 522–547.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lena Palacios Abstract This essay, with accompanying lesson plan, explores how race-radical Black and Indigenous feminists theorize and resist the carceral state violence of White settler nations of Canada and the United States. It focuses on the theoretical interventions driven by Indigenous...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 December 2016
... LenaPalaciosis an assistant professor in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Lena's research and teaching focuses on critical prison studies, Black, Indigenous, Chicana/Latina queer and trans feminisms, girls' and girlhood studies, transformative justice, media...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 187–217.
Published: 01 September 2001
... interlocutory character ofblackwomen's writings is, thus, not only a consequence of a dialogic relationship with an imaginary or THE OTHER DANCER AS SELF 199 "generalized Other," but a dialogue with the aspects of "otherness" within the self. The complex situatedness of the black woman as not only the "Other...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 22–50.
Published: 01 December 2020
... good hair exalts European, Asian, and indigenous-origin hair textures. Moreover, those with good hair are, by definition, not black, skin color notwithstanding. Thus, hair becomes an emblem of the everyday engagement of blanqueamiento , or whitening. In particular, hair—the subject and object...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 128–156.
Published: 01 September 2000
... as black nearly twice as often as Dominicans in New York (see also Dore-Cabral and ltzigsohn 1997; Levitt and Gomez 1997; Duany 1994). Confronted in New York City with the U.S. model of pure whiteness that valorizes lank, light hair, white skin, light eyes, thin and narrow-hipped bodies, the Dominican...
