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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of Fortuna’s experiences while coming of age in the Dominican Republic in the late twentieth century. While much of Dominican society’s African cultural history has been actively obscured by the ruling class, Fortuna has long celebrated Afro-Dominican culture through her life’s work and her identity has shaped...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... Blige’s history-making Katrina telethon performance are central to this discussion. The original title of this article was “‘All That You Can’t Leave Behind’: Black Female Soul Singing and the Politics of Surrogation in the Age of Catastrophe.” By summer, the focus had shifted to a dubious martyr...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Tracey Jean Boisseau Abstract This essay offers a close reading of Anne Moody’s widely read but under-theorized memoir of the civil rights movement, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). This essay’s focus mirrors a main focus in Moody’s narrative: her relationship with her mother. Much of the body...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... phenomenon of"policing the black woman's body in an urban context." In her groundbreaking essay, Carby illuminates the myriad ways in which postbellum and Gilded Age black female migrants wrestled with sexually and morally pathologizing labels imposed on them by social and political institutions. In search...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 110–131.
Published: 01 March 2003
...,Eyes,Memoryshare many elements. Both novels recount the difficult process of coming-of-age in diaspora; both girlprotagonists have fractious relations with their mothers; both girls are in exile from their homelands; both girls are haunted by unknown paternal origins-Lucy knows only of her illegitimacy...
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in Coming of Age with Anne Moody: Looking Within and Without for the Origins of Black Women’s Activism in the Civil Rights Movement
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Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 1. “Moody, approximately age 14,” age estimate courtesy of Frances Jefferson, sister of Anne Moody. Frances Jefferson text message to Leigh Ann Wheeler and shared with author, October 30, 2019. Creator: Unknown. Courtesy of the Board of Directors, Natchez Museum of African American History
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Published: 01 October 2019
Figure 1. Somos Hermanas delegation to Nicaragua, 1986. Creator: unknown. Alliance Against Women’s Oppression Records, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 4. My father, Gilbert Rosa, age 10, sitting outside of the Grant Houses, January 1959. Author’s personal collection.
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of ciguapismo , a fundamentally paradoxical mode for understanding how women endure in times of personal grief, awareness of aging, and under the shadow of sexual violence. It is also a form of environmental reckoning centered on collective care. Whether set in the Caribbean or the U.S. Dominican diaspora...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 56–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Wiebke Beushausen Abstract This article offers a literary and cultural studies approach to sexual citizenship and belonging through a reading of the coming-of-age genre. Coming-of-age narratives, a primary mode of a womanist Caribbean diaspora poetics, offer fruitful ground for an analysis...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Kelli Moore Abstract This review essay discusses recent exhibitions and accompanying art books published at the threshold of Black philosophy and aesthetics in relation to feminist mourning practices: Nicole Fleetwood’s book and exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 April 2022
... revolt in Jamaica at the end of the eighteenth century. In Rosalie l’infâme , Evelyne Trouillot traces the legacy of women’s resistance in Saint Domingue through the eyes of her young protagonist Lisette in this same period. James and Trouillot examine Black girls’ coming of age through collective...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., ways of coping, and feelings regarding empowerment for a group of seven women between the ages of forty and forty-nine. Findings were similar to previous research on Asian Indian women and revealed negative experiences with gender inequality, domestic violence, spousal alcohol abuse, and increased role...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 65–85.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... The essay ends with a primer lesson on the representation of intersectional identities in online spaces that illustrates our theoretical and pragmatic approach toward education, activism, and girls of color in a digital age. KIMBERLY A. Scorr AND PATRICIA GARCIA Techno-SocialChangeAgents...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 81–110.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Negro womanhood and the black flâneuse . The article concludes by employing the lens of “terrible honesty” to facilitate a reading of Helga Crane as Larsen's symbolic vision of the ill-fated Jazz Age literary moment. JESSICA LABBE "Toohigh a price": The"TerriblHe onesty"ofBlackWomen's Workin Quicksand...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 66–67.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Abstract At the American Historical Association's 2010 meeting in San Diego, CA, historians honored the multifaceted life and work of Blanche Wiesen Cook. Jane S. De Hart examines the circumstances and choices that shaped Cook and the generation of young women historians who came of age as young...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and letters to contemporary critical theory, from geographers' logs to films and pop culture. Her sources are rich and varied, and they can be broken down into three general types: the historical archives written during the “age of exploration” and the slave trade; the contemporary archives of newspapers...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 376–381.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to the civil war. The male-dominated ZANU PF has stayed in power because they consolidated power around Mugabe’s leadership. However, as the aging Mugabe became frail and his fifty-two-year-old energetic wife found her political voice, ZANU PF became deeply fractured and was facing electoral defeat in the 2018...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... America in the late 1970s. The interviews are combined with two focus groups that took place in the two largest Swedish cities. The category we will bring to light is that of the daughters; adults now, aged between thirty and forty-five (six of them mothers themselves). The central question...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 253–259.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and makes it possible for us to consistently bring outreach, awareness, and health programs to women of color. BWHI, at its essence, is an organization that is committed to improving health outcomes for Black women across the ages and stages of their lives. Recently we went to the source Black women to find...
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