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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 340–369.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of a new sovereign Muslim-majority state. In the context of the nascent Cold War and the Pakistani state’s efforts to develop its own relationship with the United States, one that was distinct from that of India and yet motivated almost entirely by concerns about the greater military might of this large...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 107–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and delink critique from the politics of racial solidarity and empire in the increasingly xenophobic sociopolitical landscape of the United States. Based on ethnographic research in Southern California’s Muslim communities, the authors trace the complex contours of women’s agency and the transnational...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 466–490.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Taneem Husain Abstract In the United States’ current cultural and political climate, stereotypes of Muslims, such as the destructive terrorist and oppressed burqa-clad woman, are ever-present. For Muslim Americans, breaking outside of these stereotypes is fraught: merely contesting...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Whiteness and European civilization, as well as Romani and Muslim women whose Otherness marked them for state-led socialist emancipation or eradication. These women engage with women and feminisms of color from the United States and around the world, and the consequences of these engagements illuminate...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 267–296.
Published: 01 October 2023
... is useful to me academically and politically as a resident of and scholar based in the United States, the picture changes when I think as a scholar and citizen of Turkey, a Muslim-majority country with a long history of state-sponsored political and ethnoracial repression, mass political purges...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 127–130.
Published: 01 December 2020
... others link the U.S.-sponsored war in Afghanistan to the repression of the media and the attacks on civil liberties within the U.S. itself. In constructing an archive of these courageous testimonies, Meridians honors the courage and integrity of women in the United States and around the world who aspire...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 414–442.
Published: 01 October 2021
... studies to include Muslims in conversations about race and racialization in the United States. As a cultural studies scholar, I conduct a critical discourse analysis of these murder cases that are not defined as hate crimes as covered in news reporting, police press releases, and responses in op-eds...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the effect of turning attention away from the United States’ own imperial and anti-immigrant violence and covering up how the US war on terror—including the Muslim ban—depends on the very gendered and sexualized violence that the Muslim ban seeks to protect “Americans” from (Naber 2019b ). And now, more...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 October 2021
... More recently, what is referred to as “Islamofascism”—which collapses Muslims with fascists and Islam with national socialism in the United States and Europe—has been weaponized against any critique of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism undermining the intertextual connection of Islamophobia with anti...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 443–465.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the queer and futurist imaginary. Queerness, Islam, and futurism were a natural merging to me, but felt tense for the society around me. At the time I lived in the United States, and Western society sees queerness and Islam as somehow at odds with one another, as if Muslims could not be queer. Muslims...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 298–322.
Published: 01 October 2021
... how Muslims are often apprehended through flexible racialized and sexualized associations that can nevertheless have rigid and material consequences. What can memes and their circulation tell us about how notions of contagion shape the context of surveilling Muslims in the United States? Memes...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 130–152.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to be read against increasing Islamophobia in the West. The Patriot Act in the United States and Bill C36and the Anti Terrorism legislation in Canada have led to increased surveillance of citizens, particularly of Muslims (Markoff and Schwartz 2002),while Britain has "a shoot to kill policy" (Whitney 2005...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
... East, Europe, Canada, and the United States, among other nations, reveals the global circuits along which anti-Muslim racism travels. Their explorations of how the global and the local are intertwined pay special attention to how discourses of anti-Muslim racism install white, Western subjects...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): v–xii.
Published: 01 March 2004
...-in particular, Muslim women (as in the case of the intervention in Afghanistan)-has had, on the other, the exactly opposite effect in other parts of the world indirectly connected to the United States and to U.S. foreign policy in areas where its main political and economic interests lay. In her interview...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 396–413.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... In today’s Russia, “race” ( rasa ) is rarely used as a legal category and, in the public discourse, it is firmly associated with the oppression of Black and African Americans and their continuous struggle for liberation in the United States. However, racial logics have always shaped ideas and the material...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... In fact the only explicit clue that speaks to Eve's identity as a Muslim in her music is the occasional use of Allah. As stated earlier, Monson argues that improvisation is communal, therefore meaning is created not only by the musical artist but also by audience perception. She states that: how musicians...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 283–288.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of bringing "freedom" and "civilization" to it. Look at the people who are being targeted for attack. A Sikh man has been killed. There are reports of a Cherokee woman in the United States having been attacked. Pakistanis are being attacked. Hindu temples have been attacked, as have Muslim mosques. Muslims...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 March 2006
... acceptance of torture as a tool for U.S. aims, carried out both by the United States and by various allied regimes on behalf of the United States; the impact of this within U.S. society; the assault on civil liberties by governments around the world; the demonization of Muslim men by Western governments...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in the United States; and third, the geopolitical moment “post-9/11,” which Reddy argues generated new allegiances that required “the exclusion of Muslim populations from both US and Indian global modernities” (5). In this historical context, Fashioning Diaspora adopts transnational feminist critique...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in feminist thinking in the United States when college students who are horrified by the practice of genital mutilation are not disturbed by the lengths to which women in the US go to surgically alter their own bodies to fit in with male supremacist standards of beauty (119). Emphasizing the need...
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