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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 184–204.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Sequoia Maner Abstract This essay traces the ethical impulse of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, Lemonade. I frame the writings of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston as antecedent creations that depict black women’s journeys into interior psychic spaces as method for healing. Reading the trope...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of Black women popular music artists whose early twenty-first century recordings and stirring performances addressed the traumas, the challenges, and the spectacular subjugation of Black women who fell victim to brutal disenfranchisement in the midst of the disaster. Beyonce’s B-Day album and Mary J...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
...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...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2018
...-affirming vibes and savors the sweetness around her. Likewise, this issue’s “Call to Action” is Zoe Spencer’s spoken word piece “Rise Up.” Fittingly, in “Rise Up” Spencer alludes to Beyoncé’s early hit “If I Were a Boy,” in which the singer laments the prerogatives of masculine freedom and the attendant...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., spoke up," as a feminist in action, if not in name. Similarly, Adichie recalls at one time qualifying her claim to feminism by describing herself as a feminist who "wears lip gloss and heels for herself." Capitalizing on this notion, pop star Beyonce sampled Adichie's speech in her hit 2014 single...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 293–321.
Published: 01 September 2008
...: Wild Side," you buy an adult film called BootyLuscious,starring Angel Eyes and Luscious Lopez as "hot back door mamas who want to back up into you" (Time- 298 MERIDIANS 8:1 Warner 2006). Time Warner's references to J.Lo and the "bootylicious" Beyonce show a direct link between women in pop music...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 279–295.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., and hooks’s reference to Beyoncé Knowles as an “anti-feminist—that is a terrorist” to young Black women’s minds (Diaz 2014 ). As AWAKE! grew confident in its self-identification as a feminist group, members started attending public lectures and privately meeting with visiting postcolonial feminist scholars...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2008
... they travel beyond India's borders. Also exploring the sound of women's voices as well as the legacy of discontent and dissonance in black female soul-singing is Daphne Brooks's "'All That YouCan't Leave Behind Situating Beyonce Knowles's second solo album, B-Day,alongside Mary J. Blige's performance with U2...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... as a public speaker and author, and has even been featured in Beyonce’s (mother of three) Lemonade Visual album (Rose 2021 ). She states, “It took my son being shot down to make me stand up” (Rose 2021 ). Sybrina also mentioned, “I just refused to be quiet. My son had no voice and I refused to just let...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 240–266.
Published: 01 October 2023
... ultra-inclusive consumerist mantra is that the more consumer products women buy, the more liberated they are. Roxane Gay ( 2014 ) identified this among celebrities like Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Emma Watson, and Jennifer Lawrence, whose claiming feminism “for themselves has become the spoonful of sugar...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 December 2016
... allows for the general public, as well as students and scholars, to have a real-time, interactive experience with hooks while she engages in conversation with leading public intellectuals, artists, writers, and activists on everything from Beyonce to #BlackLivesMatter. For many of my students, if not all...