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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 149–175.
Published: 01 March 2005
... I must bethebridgeto nowhere But my trueself Andthen I willbeusuul Donna Kate Rushin, "The Bridge Poem" Si Aristoteles hubiera guisado, mucho mas hubiera escrito. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Respuestaa SorFiloteadela Cruz When thinking about the U.S.-Mexican border, the contrasting images of products...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Luz María Gordillo Abstract This essay first analyzes the construction of a “Muslim Woman Other” as a particular social reality through the dissemination of academic and media discourses, militarization of the border, and the implementation of immigration policies and practices that allow...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 124–140.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the more modest "Lower" part. I toddled around my beautiful tree-lined street with an ethnically mixed bunch of working- and middle-class kids, a handful of them black. I knew nothing of civil rights as I started Jefferson Elementary, a monumental building bordered by turn-of-the-century mansions, some...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2013
... used her art to bring attention to social issues particularly around women, immigration, and the US-Mexico border. Arroyo's FlordeVida(Flower ofLife) project celebrates women who form part of the mythologies of cultures from around the world, such as Lakshmi, Xochiquetzal, and Daphne. The vibrant...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 148–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lily Martinez Abstract Borders have been commonly popularized as a space where illegal acts and perversions occur. As an area of political instability and representative of constant corporal movement, they are imagined as the impossibility of cultural development. Typical representations...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 440–445.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of this hand-stacked structure, which is designed to accommodate movement in relation to the biopolitical technology of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, migrant dispossession, and my own family’s experiences navigating borders and cleaved spaces. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 78–98.
Published: 01 September 2014
... for women. Unfortunately, what they found on the “Queen's soil” was that racism as well as sexist beliefs were a transcending sentiment, which did not discontinue at the American-Canadian international border. Still, these women in the dominion of Canada fought to challenge constructed borders, whether...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 130–143.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of opening and closing that both isolates . . . and makes [it] impenetrable” (Foucault 1986, 26), making the heterotopia a space that erects its own fluid and autonomous boundaries. Las Krudas' music also expands diasporic space, transgresses geographic borders, and links sound to place: La Habana. In La...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
... as other feminist texts such as Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa (1987). By highlighting Ann’s story, the goal is to analyze the impermeability of borders within spaces, identities, and activism, as well as examine the ways that geographies can be mapped onto the bodies of Black queer women...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the 2011 people’s uprising in Egypt as well as on the iconic pan-Arab feminist leader Huda Shaarawi to evoke powerful images of Muslim women. Finally, the essay turns to transnational feminists such as Angela Davis, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cynthia Enloe, Miriam Cooke, and Zillah Eisenstein for cross-border...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of Sikh subject-formation in a pre-Partition border community, and close in, like the novel itself, on a key moment of embodied violence: the cutting up and reassembling of a woman's body, whose manner of death is later reconstructed by her male family members, in the presence of a female family member...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 208–226.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and transported violently across national borders to be sold at auction. These films focus on criminal perpetrators and criminal-justice solutions, rather than on the broader systemic causes of sex trafficking, like globalization, economic inequality, poverty, and ethnic, race, and gender oppressions. This essay...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 September 2015
... system as simply a US–Mexico border issue by situating the burgeoning influence of East Asian nations and corporations in this economically profitable region of the world. Through the concept of glorientalization, I elucidate the connections between the all-encompassing gestures of globalization...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the founding president of the Arab Feminist Union. Bringing these figures into conversation with Angela Davis's encounter with women in Egypt in her book Women, Culture, and Politics opens up new spaces for cross-border feminisms that cut across imperial legacies that continue to define relationships between...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 December 2016
... is rooted in Black feminist and transnational feminist traditions, and has as its core the guiding principles of intersectionality, scholar-activism, solidarity building, and attention to borders and boundaries. Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 KIAM. Q.HALL A TransnationalBlackFeminist...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 446–474.
Published: 01 October 2023
... from the public imaginary of mourning and loss. It also considers how the multiple subject positions of Puerto Ricans shape belonging both locally and across transnational borders. In doing so, the author makes the case for an intersectional analysis of mass violence, mourning, and resistance, in order...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 133–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Ina Knobblock Abstract This article is a Sámi feminist analysis of large-scale resource extraction in Sábme, the transnational Sámi territory spanning northern Fenno-Scandinavia and the Murmansk peninsula. Specifically, it centers on the mining of Indigenous land within the borders of the Swedish...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 69–91.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the problem, I think, is that it isn't really reflected in sort of the upper crust, or the elite, that controls the nation-state. But by and large, especially for me as a Haitian, when I look at how women activists have been working with each other, sometimes across the border, but since '86, '87, especially...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 157–185.
Published: 01 September 2015
... allocations. Although a significant body of anthropological research has been conducted in the nearby region of Ladakh, especially within border and Himalayan studies (van Beek 2000; Aggarwal 2004; Aggarwal and Bhan 2009; Middleton 2013; Smith 2013), very little scholarship has focused on the Lahaul valley...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 518–520.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., quick with the beat of how much she had paid already. except for her back stiff with how she could not could not turn back around. and so she stood there, at the border, with not so much as a plastic chair to support her detainment. with only her shiny suitcases as witness. packed completely full...
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