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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Natasha Bakht Abstract Bans or attempts to ban the niqab have traveled global circuits, with disastrous consequences for Muslim women who wear the face veil. These women have evoked a repugnance that insists on erasing them from public spaces. An analysis of niqab bans reveals that: (1...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Abosede George Abstract This essay discusses girl-saving campaigns in Nigerian history, focusing on the two that have been most extensively documented: the girl hawker project of the early twentieth century, which climaxed with the 1943 passage of the first hawking ban in Nigeria...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and unmanned aircraft technologies to immigration bans—one thing has not changed: even the newest and most improved forms of anti-Muslim racism are justified by recycled arguments about “Islamic sexual savagery.” This is why I would argue that it is imperative to affirm, louder than ever before...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 66–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... theirownri9htto theroleofsimplemouthpieces. Introduction Winnie Mandela was banned by the South African government in 1962. Timereported: Banning is one of the most chilling methods for suppressing dissent in South Africa. There is no requirement for formal charges, no trial, no [Meridians:feminismra, ce...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and a legally authorized eviction from political community apparent in such diverse legal projects as the Muslim travel ban in the United States and the banning of full-face veils (see Razack 2008 ; forthcoming ). Muslims have been targeted by white supremacist shooters in Quebec City, Canada and Christchurch...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): ix–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2001
... States, the Middle East, and Europe. Genital mutilation has been banned by Senegal due to the efforts of women's organizations but reconfirmed as a legitimate cultural practice elsewhere. In rural Bangladesh, often as a result of development projects, women who seek to be economically independent appear...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 82–96.
Published: 01 September 2018
... hair care products, TSA pat-downs at the airport, policy in the military, bans against hairstyles in private schools, or interactive public demonstrations, black hair is an object of conversation, legislation, violation, and representation. 1 It is touched, talked about, and acted upon. Moreover...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of the Egyptian government. In 1991 the organization she founded-the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, which had nearly three thousand members-was banned after it criticized the U.S. involvement in the first Gulf War; and in 2004 she campaigned for the presidency ofEgypt. Indeed her life and work-undeterred...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of production during this period of sustained worldwide economic crisis. The state responded by banning the caustic soda and synthetic dye and subsequently arresting dyers for using them. Dyers in turn held mass protests and hired lawyers to represent them, leading to a Commission ofEnquiry...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 414–442.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... That is as ludicrous as claiming that if Trump banned all Muslims from the U.S., it would save us from being murdered, as Nabra was. Given his undocumented status, Torres was held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center before his trial and sentence (Sinclair 2017 ). And thus...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
... secularizing policies, such as banning of religious symbols or exclusion of religious parties, that were associated with many Muslim-majority states in the Middle East into the 1970s and 1980s. In contrast, despite proclaiming its Islamic character, the Pakistani state of the 1940s–1970s allowed itself a great...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 298–322.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of flaws” (Kang 2014 ). The aforementioned report clearly parallels the language of the so-called Muslim ban executive order (Trump 2017 ), which sought to exclude “those who engage in acts of bigotry or hatred (including ‘honor’ killings [and] other forms of violence against women)” and which relied...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 8–13.
Published: 01 April 2019
... caused bumper stickers and rallies and international bans on their murder and the criminalization of the exploding harpoon (you know. that thing that got under their skin and destroyed them from the inside) didn’t mean it would work for us. i mean how long had we, black women, been singing. when...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 323–339.
Published: 01 October 2021
... three editorials—the penultimate of which is translated below—were especially directed toward the proliferation of communism in Egypt. The government ruled “that her editorials would deter cordial relations between Egypt and her communist allies during this very critical period,” and banned her from...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
... in the New Mysore Cafe, at a cracked marble table top A cup of foaming coffee in front of me, Notebook open to catch a fruit fly on a smear of honey. The cafe is gone, in its place is a Reebok store, also a shop selling Airtel SIM cards, Cell phones in colors of the rainbow, Ray Ban dark glasses and knock...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
... substitution. Imported food items such as wheat flour, cow's milk, split peas, cooking oil, and cheese were banned (Latin American Bureau 1984). However, attempts to produce substitutes for them within Guyana failed. When the economic crisis deepened, Guyana turned to the International Monetary Fund...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 148–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
... a national widespread intolerance for interracial marriages. By the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the fears of racial mixing had grown to the extent that, in 1913, George Chauncey pointed out that forty-one states had extended the legal ban (63). It wasn't until 1967 that the Supreme Court...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 325–330.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., her name withheld by the courts, has been charged with nine counts of murder (Kiplagat 2017 ). There are calls for stricter punishments for students, including from a member of Parliament who said the “Ministry of Education has made it difficult for teachers to punish errant students by banning...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 September 2015
... electronic equipment, thus confirming the common-sense representation of poor and/or black people as standing outside of modernity. In the interviews in Campinas, many middle- and upper-class respondents justified their ban on maid's access to household technologies by using the excuse oftheir maid's...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 412–434.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... In the poem "Invasion," the speaker's fundamental interest in and engagement with the world beyond Jamaica surface in her repeated !FEOMA K!DDOE NWANKWO WORKING-CLASS JAMAICAN WOMEN 419 references to reading the news: "Wat a bans o' big headline/Dab tell we sey invasion start," (103 l. 2-3) and "Yuh noh...
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