...Daphne A. Brooks Abstract This essay explores the critical work of Beyoncé's second solo recording, and places it in conversation with yet another under-theorized yet equally dissonant R&B performance by her “hip-hop soul queen” contemporary Mary J. Blige. In relation to both Beyoncé's...

... Press . Charania Gulzar R. 2022 . “ Lonely Methods and Other Tough Places: Recuperating Anti-racism from White Investments .” Feminist Theory 23 , no. 1 : 61 – 75 . Cho Grace M. 2007 . Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War . Minneapolis...

...Janell Hobson; R. Dianne Bartlow Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 JANELL HOBSON AND R. DIANNE BARTLOW Introduction RepresentinW': omenH, ip-Hopa, nd PopularMusic As coeditors of this special issue of Meridiansw, e set out to provide a forum to enrich, challenge, and expand the present...

...Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley Abstract In the late fall of 2004, following the media spectacle created by Spelman College's protest of the misogyny and sexism in the music and videos of rapper Nelly, Essence, a popular black women's magazine, began a campaign to raise awareness. Arguing that a more...

...Daníel R. Martínez Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 DANiEL R. MARTf NEZ ShamedAn.9els On the dead-end corner of my street, payback and payday are one-and-the-same. At the house on the corner there is a cement virgin nested in an upright bathtub half-sunk in the ground; there is also...

...Daníel R. Martínez Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 DANIEL R. MARTiNEZ Forgivenefsrsom Malintzin She stood in shadows whispering for me to help write her back into reality against a wall of history; scribbles and graffiti on the hard outer flesh, a messenger of fear, hate...

...Daníel R. Martínez Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 DANIEL R. MARTiNEZ HollyhociknCaliche Silence I've wondered endlessly what purpose hope serves when I know lamuerteis waiting for me; it swept across an Alzheimer's bed, picked up the old woman and retreated, unseen, just...

...Erica R. Meiners Abstract Using recent work by anti-prison theorists and community-based activists who are working against the prison industrial complex, this article links prison abolition to feminist frameworks to question escalating sex offender registries and community notification laws...

...Linda Diane Horwitz; Catherine R. Squires Abstract Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, currently a member of the African National Congress's National Executive Committee, is most widely known as the former wife of Nelson Mandela. While she continues to be a popular politician in South Africa, she has...

...Courtney R. Baker Abstract This essay examines women’s literary mourning as expressed in the trope of lashing in Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy . Structural ties, bonds, and lashes grant affective bonds in A Mercy a dangerous and sometimes lethal edge. This essay examines the fraught bonding...

...Cheryl R. Hopson Abstract: The focus of this essay is a memoir of first-time biological motherhood, Baby Love , by Third Wave feminist writer and cultural critic Rebecca Walker ( 2007 ). This essay enlists a black and Third Wave feminist intersectional theoretic to argue that Walker, a famous...

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... a particularlypowerJulproductivetoolJor speakingbackto and ultimately destabilizingdisciplinarypower. [Meridians:Jeminism,race,transnationalism2008, vol. 8, no. r, pp. 130-143] © 2008 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 130 [T]heysay that in Cubatherearenot classest,hat everybodyis workingclass.Butin Cubatherehasbeenachieveda...

.../meridians.14.r.03 30 instrumental in the creation of the National Council for Women's Rights, whose goal is to design public policies that promote gender equality and fight gender discrimination against women. The struggle against domestic and sexual violence established a paradigm shift regarding...

... from ninth grade through undergraduate. Relevant subject areas in which it could be taught include: English/ Language Arts, Social Studies, History, Political Science, and Cultural Studies. Objectives Over the course of this unit students will: r. Gain knowledge of the meaning and implications...