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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 71.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Marilyn Chin Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 BOLD BEAUTY MarilynChin She opened her eyes and he was already within her. Though the lore said that a mere kiss would suffice. The song distorted on the tongue of the soothsayerno need to struggle, he would take her away on his...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 128–156.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Ginetta Candelario Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 ESSAYS HairRace-ing Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production GINETTA CANDELARIO Useto be Yacouldlearna wholelotofstuff sittinBin them beautyshopchairs Useto be Yacouldmeet a wholelotof otherwomen sittinthere...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 22–50.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Ginetta E. B. Candelario Copyright © 2000 Wesleyan University Press, now published by Duke University Press on behalf of Smith College 2000 Use to be Ya could learn a whole lot of stuff sitting in them beauty shop chairs Use to be Ya could meet a whole lot of other women...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Vanita Reddy Abstract This essay examines Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri's literary engagements with cosmopolitan Indian beauty and style in her short stories “Sexy” and “Interpreter of Maladies” (2003). It situates these engagements as part of a transnational beauty assemblage...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 132–138.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Suzanne Kamata SUZANNE KAMATA The Beautiful One Has Come All night long I watch the planes crash into the twin towers. And crash again. The balls of fire, the plummeting bodies, the sudden sag of skyscrapers. All night I watch the broadcasts from America on television and think ofNefertiti...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Beauty Bragg; Pancho McFarland Abstract The discourse on gender and sexuality in rap music is dominated by the pornographic. Women of color contending with demeaning pornographic images have entered the discourse though many routes. JV and Ms. Sancha exemplify the two predominant approaches...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 293–295.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Teri Ellen Cross Davis Abstract Often the narrative on dark skin in America has been dominated by Eurocentric standards of beauty. White supremacy dictated dark skin to be unattractive and lesser than light skin. This poem explores the rich beauty of darkness in the natural world, from fruit...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in the colonial lore of female shapeshifters and sorceresses provides a counterreading to the beautiful and subservient woman of color of colonial fantasies. By situating West Indian femininity in a genealogy of supernatural camouflage, subterfuge, and transformation, Capécia and Césaire undermine misogynist...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 118–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... for this gathering was to have a major intervention: in the twenty-first century, Black/Afro-descendent women need to conspire. We understand a conspiracy to be an act of love and care; a search for equity and equality; an affirmation of our beauty; a commitment to guaranteeing access to food, education and health...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 412–434.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the migrant experience’s beautiful-ugly complexities. As we discuss transnational migration as an element of Caribbean identity, though, we should consider the international engagements and worldviews of those who do not or cannot migrate “infact,” but do so “by metaphor,” to use Kamau Brathwaite’s terms...
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Published: 01 April 2021
Figure 3. Theatrical release advertisement for Umrao Jaan (2006) starring Bollywood icon and beauty pageant queen Aishwarya Rai in the title role as a courtesan. Photo courtesy National Film Archives of India.
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 363–388.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... Copyright © 2010 Smith College 2010 cosmopolitan whiteness beauty ideal transnational feminism affect theory advertisement Skin-whitening advertisements dominate the landscape of Indonesian women’s magazines. Often, these whitening advertisements appear on the first page of such magazines...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 15–41.
Published: 01 March 2010
...: Caucasian (Kawashima 2002). Other important studies on the racial politics of beauty that challenge body-altering practices as merely revealing people's desires for the white beauty norm nonetheless refer to Caucasian whiteness as a frame for referencing "whiteness." Kathleen Zane, although providing us...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
... protagonist’s beauty in Bharati Mukherjee’s novel Jasmine (1989); this is a physical attractiveness that repeatedly reveals both the potential and the failures of national and transnational belonging for diasporic Indian women. Chapter 2 shifts the focus to Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 382–392.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., and straightened styles (Ellis-Hervey et al. 2016). Unfortunately, Eurocentric beauty standards of long, flowing hair place pressure on Black women to focus on length retention and straightening procedures (Hargro 2011). The length and texture of a Black woman's hair can have an impact on her access to education...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 157–160.
Published: 01 September 2018
... deeper into the vastness of our small islands; variety renders them unrecognizable. Meridians:feminisrmac,et,ransnationalisrm6, no. r (2or8):r57-r60. Copyright©2or8 SmithCollege.doi: ro.2979/meridians.r6.r.r5 157 Put a beautiful woman on the cover. A tall and thin woman with skin that is dark...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 41–66.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the benefit of tradition. The film's 46 IFI AMADIUME dominant narrative is again a ritual for the culturing of girls' bodies by matriarchs. Monday Moses, the matriarch in this film, says that she makes the girls look beautiful, not with clothes, but with the traditional body paint. Like the traditional Bemba...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 414–444.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Marcos, chartered in 1551, where I saw her retrospective exhibit, Revelada e Indeleble ( Revealed and Indelible ), an assemblage of works she completed between 2001–11. 11 This exhibit combined works she produced in her earlier exhibits about race, gender, and beauty including Que tal raza (2002...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 26–27.
Published: 01 March 2001
... with depth by stories of grandmother's connoisseurship. Its being in time is salvaged as origin, beauty. A part of something is preferred, restless moves to settlement in held territory, your criticism to your resignation. The fragment, "my lost home," belongs to this grounding mistake of a family from...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... barrios look like Sesame Street, or some place really warm and beautiful. Poor neighborhoods loose [ sic ] their charm after dark. . . . I was writing about it in the most real sense that I knew, as a person walking those neighborhoods with a vagina” (Rodríguez Aranda 1990 : 69–70). Cisneros’s collection...
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