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The Essence of Res(ex)pectability: Black Women's Negotiation of Black Femininity in Rap Music and Music Video

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Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 236–260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.236
Published: 01 September 2008
... response generated on its internet-based scribble boards, which offered their readers the opportunity to participate in a communal dialogue. Arguing that the scribble boards became a black women's temporary “safe space,” this essay interrogates the manner in which black women construct subject positions...
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Debates in the Field: Debt and Transnational Feminist Analysis

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Laura Briggs
Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8117724
Published: 01 April 2020
... to identify debt as an extractive enterprise and seize hold of a notion of freedom that is robust enough to resist what Jodi Kim and Michael Hudson have called “debt imperialism.” Paying attention to the recent Puerto Rican revolt against the governor, the fiscal control board, the management of hurricane...
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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 and Culture, Natchez, Mississippi.

“Moody, approximately age 14,” age estimate courtesy of Frances Jefferson, ...

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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 > Meridians
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 More
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Figure 41. Group at YWCA Student Conference, Waveland, Mississippi, 1931. Beginning in the early twentieth century, the YWCA took up “colored work,” working initially through segregated associations. In the 1930s the organization took positions against lynching and the poll tax as well as for birth control. In 1946, the YWCA’s national board adopted an Interracial Charter that called on its three million members to promote racial integration within the organization and in the larger society. YWCA student groups were significant sites for developing leaders for civil rights and women’s movements. YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, SSC.

Group at YWCA Student Conference, Waveland, Mississippi, 1931. Beginning in...

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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960 > Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
as for birth control. In 1946, the YWCA’s national board adopted an Interracial Charter that called on its three million members to promote racial integration within the organization and in the larger society. YWCA student groups were significant sites for developing leaders for civil rights and women’s More
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Black Women’s Health Project Case Statement 1993

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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 260–275.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.16.2.07
Published: 01 March 2018
... decade, the executive staff and Board of Directors has recognized that this forward movement cannot be sustained without attention to evaluating and strengthening its organizational structure, and developing the appropriate internal support systems that will enable it to respond effectively...
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Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: Violence against Women of Color and Human Rights

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Andrea Smith
Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 120–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004-4.2.120
Published: 01 March 2004
... that the United States should or will always continue to exist-to do so is to fundamentally sanction the continuing genocide of indigenous peoples on which this government is based. One organization that avoids this problem is the American Indian Boarding School Healing Project, which organizes against gender...
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Women's world: A Transnational Network of Women WritersThe Targeting of Feminist Writers

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Meredith Tax
Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 177–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-2.1.177
Published: 01 September 2001
... organized in Rosario, Argentina, in August, 2000, byww board member Angelica Gorodischer; 2) Mbaasem, a new organization set up by ww founding member, Arna Ata Aidoo, to develop a residency program for women writers in Ghana; 3) a three-country (Albania, Kosovo, Italy) oral history project to preserve...
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Creating the Archive of African Women’s Writing: Reflecting on Feminism, Epistemology, and the Women Writing Africa Project

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Abena P. A. Busia
Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 233–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7176406
Published: 01 November 2018
..., collection, preparation, and presentation of texts tried to take historical factors of inequality into account. Our working structure comprised an international board of advisors and a U.S.-based executive committee of Africans and Americans, which were primarily consultative; a vast number of individual...
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African Feminisms: Cartographies for the Twenty-First Century

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Alicia C. Decker, Gabeba Baderoon
Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 219–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7176384
Published: 01 November 2018
... advisory board. The former comprises Penn State faculty members with an interest in the field, while the latter consists of leading African feminist scholars from around the world. 2 We also have a broad network of affiliates, both scholars and activists, who are involved in the work of the AFI and our...
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Post Partum Blues I & II Consanguinidad Virtual/Virtual Consanguinity

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Mariangeles Soto-Diaz
Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 68–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004-4.2.68
Published: 01 March 2004
... Consanguinity XX.V(Iemail Alxa) 5" x 6" Mixed/board Mariangeles Soto-Diaz 2000 Consanguinidad Virtual XXVIII/ Virtual Consanguinity XXVIII(email mama) 5" x 6" Mixed/wax/board Marian gel es Soto- Diaz 2000 Consanguinidad Virtual XXXI/ Virtual Consanguinity XXXI(email mama) 5" x 6" Mixed/board Tomy mother...
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Passion, Generosity, and the Academy: Meridians Interview with Ruth J. Simmons

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Ruth J. Simmons
Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 13–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8858119
Published: 01 December 2020
... (1989–91) and while there I was very interested in the work of Sage , a publication for and about African-American women. I was also aware of how difficult it was to produce Sage : difficult in the sense of bringing together scholars on the editorial board; of trying to persuade people institutionally...
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About the Contributors

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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 163–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.1.163
Published: 01 September 2011
... currently sits on the editorial advisory board of PMLAand is a professor of English at the Universityof Cincinnati. CAROLCLEHARLiEsSan associate professor of sociology at Baruch College. Her present scholarlywork focuses on three interconnected areas of research: labor migration and transnational patterns...
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Excerpts from the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project : Interview with Peggy Saika by Loretta Ross

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Peggy Saika, Loretta Ross
Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 163–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.2010.10.2.163
Published: 01 March 2010
... in Philanthropy (AAPIP).She is active in the Buena Vista United Methodist Church. Saika has served on several boards, including the Ms. Foundation for Women, the California Wellness Foundation, the New World Foundation, 164 MERIDIANS 10:2 and Choice USA.Saika is married to Art Chen, a political activist...
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A Black Feminist Interpretation: Reading Life, Pedagogy, and Emilie

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Conra D. Gist
Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 245–268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.1.13
Published: 01 December 2016
.... Finally, the lesson plan set will conclude by asking students to complete a group performance task in which they develop a presentation to a school board on the need to include the study of black feminism in the school curriculum. Students will draw from the texts explored in previous lessons...
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Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960

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Joyce C. Follet
Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 94–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7297169
Published: 01 April 2019
... as for birth control. In 1946, the YWCA’s national board adopted an Interracial Charter that called on its three million members to promote racial integration within the organization and in the larger society. YWCA student groups were significant sites for developing leaders for civil rights and women’s...
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About the Contributors

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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 312–315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-2.2.312
Published: 01 March 2002
...(Zed Books, 2000). AMRITA BASU, a member of the MeridiansFounding Advisory Board, teaches political science and women's and gender studies at Amherst College. She writes about women's activism, religious nationalism, and women's movements, primarily with reference to India. She is the author of Two...
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Editor's Introduction

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Paula J. Giddings
Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 214–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.16.1.19
Published: 01 September 2018
... of the underground spring with its own inexorable will to rise. As the new editor of MeridiansI, feel the responsibility-and excitement--of sustaining the journal's mission to be one of these sites. I am fortunate to inherit the editorship of a journal whose boards-especially the editorial founding board-as well...
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Who’s Terrorizing Who?

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Ginetta E. B. Candelario
Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 249–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9547841
Published: 01 October 2021
... history. In light of that, I dedicate this issue to Egyptian feminist, activist, physician, psychiatrist, educator, and writer Nawal El Saadawi (October 27, 1931–March 21, 2021), who was a member of the Meridians Founding Advisory Board and who passed away earlier this year. I agree with El Saadawi...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 236–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mer.2006.0006
Published: 01 March 2006
... and current President of the Association of African Women Scholars (AAWS) and List Administrator of an Internet discussion group on gender issues in Africa and the African Diaspora (AFWOSCHO).She is a member of the board of trustees of many international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs...
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Lesson Plan: Them Girls Sure Got History: Notes on Becoming a Forensic Herstorical Investigator

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Karsonya Wise Whitehead
Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 269–289.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.1.14
Published: 01 December 2016
... life was like during that time. If necessary, give them a short Lecture Blast highlighting some of the key points. Notes should be written on the front board so that students can refer back to them throughout the lessons. 3. Next, have students move back into the groups that they worked with yesterday...
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