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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 September 2006
... defined my life across and within Puerto Rico and U.S. racial and political borders. Through personal accounts of my lived experience in both locations, I compare Puerto Rico's racialization process of mestizaje-an ideology that purports a state of harmonious race relations in which discrimination...
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 1. Groundaction . Loíza, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Welmo E. Romero Joseph. More
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Figure 2. I Got Something to Tell. Loíza, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Welmo E. Romero Joseph. More
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Figure 3. Can You See Me? Loíza, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Welmo E. Romero Joseph. More
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Figure 4. The Flower Technique. Loíza, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Welmo E. Romero Joseph. More
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Figure 5. (Re)Connecting. Loíza, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Welmo E. Romero Joseph. More
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Figure 6. Everybody Get Down. Loíza, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Welmo E. Romero Joseph. More
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Figure 8. Healing Hands. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Gloribel Delgado Esquilín. More
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Figure 9. On Becoming . . . San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Gloribel Delgado Esquilín. More
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 10. Warrior in Headwrap. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Gloribel Delgado Esquilín. More
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 439–464.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Aurora Santiago Ortiz Abstract Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (La Cole) is a Black feminist political organization that emerged in 2014 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This article discusses the ways La Cole’s public discourse around sexism, racism, and homophobia in the archipelago is articulated...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 97–106.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Figure 1. Groundaction . Loíza, Puerto Rico, 2016. © Welmo E. Romero Joseph. ...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Laura Briggs Abstract Debt and imperialism have long been crucial questions for transnational feminism. This article attends particularly to recent and historical traditions of resistance in Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean. It argues that part of the intellectual and political struggle has been...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 360–382.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Marie Cruz Soto Abstract This article delves into the history of medical institutions, birthing practices, and reproductive rights in Vieques. The exploration exposes contradictions at the heart of Puerto Rico’s colonial modernity. Around the middle of the twentieth century, Puerto Ricans were...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Vanessa Rosa Abstract Drawing on family photographs and documents, as well as archival research, the author reflects on her grandmother’s migration to New York City from Puerto Rico in the mid-1940s and examines her journey and new life in New York in relation to the broader sociopolitical context...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 56–70.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ana Irma Rivera Lassén; Manuela Borzone; Alexander Ponomareff Abstract Since the beginnings of 1970s activism in Puerto Rico, like in other countries, there have been tensions between dialogues about race and feminism. Tensions between feminisms and Afrodescendant women's movements persist. As part...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 279–307.
Published: 01 December 2020
... María Umpierre. Agosto, Acevedo, and Negrón 2008 is a groundbreaking collection that includes the work of Puerto Rican queer writers from the island and the diaspora. It features the work of many of these poets and other queer-identified women. 7 Puerto Rico has been a U.S. colony since...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 83–112.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and place exert significant influence on how they represent sex and sexuality in their work. In this case, it is perhaps not surprising that given their coming of age in Puerto Rico during the mid 1940sand 1960s respectively, neither Pantoja nor Lopez Torregrosa uses the "L"word to describe herself...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2020
... government–imposed Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) in 2016. Despite its “promising” acronym, with its imposition of “extreme austerity measures” on an already impoverished population, PROMESA has done more harm than good for the majority of the island’s people (Vega...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 446–474.
Published: 01 October 2023
... . “ ‘The Infamous Crime against Nature’: Constructions of Heterosexuality and Lesbian Subversions in Puerto Rico .” In The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean , edited by Lewis Linden , 191 – 210 . Gainesville : University Press of Florida . Delerme Simone . 2014 . “ Puerto Ricans...
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