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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 115–116.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Tamara Wong-Morrison Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 CHICKEN FEET, CHICKEN TamaraWong-Morrison SOUP Samantha -that was her name, my Easter chick, one of those dyed purple or pink chicks that chirp around the Easter bunnies displayed at the store. Somehow I ended up with her...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Japanese couple adjusting to life in America - the woman showing her willingness to acquiesce to her husband's notion of Americanization, until it crosses the line of taste. Tamara Wong-Morrison's "Chicken Feet, Chicken Soup," a reference to a flavorful local Chinese dish, recounts the demise...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 28–55.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., and seal a pact of confidentiality between them, following the accidental death of Chicken Little, a crime for which they share responsibility. After Chicken Little slips from Sula's hands into the water, and the two girls watch him drown, Sula cries and is frightened, Nel quiets and comforts her...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 86–88.
Published: 01 March 2005
... how she cemented her story with one solitary act. A wounded healer hammering her stance. Ruined music splitting the air. SERENGHETTI CROW 87 Fried Daddy was all things fried fish, chicken, and pork rinds. He was also things I'd never been pickled pig feet, chitlins, and marrow sucked deep from chicken...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in a plant is some mad women.” “Where are the men?” answers Sarah, in response to my question. “In jail. On drugs. Or pursuing careers and don’t care about us. But there’s women everywhere,” she continues, her voice rising to rhythmic preaching levels. “Women in the chicken plants, women in the catfish...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 278–288.
Published: 01 March 2003
... women were there, bags of fast-food chicken splayed out between us. Carolyn Bradford was a Tennessee-based organizer, while Margaret Hollins and Mary Sibley were local UFCW reps, as was Sarah White, the woman I had come to see. This was the workof 1529: strategizing around conference tables, color...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 152–160.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... “I was so scared then, as I fell, you know I had Deana on one hip and Gregory on the other and when you slip and fall with babies you go down and you protect the little ones, so that’s what I did, which meant I hit the ground hard. All I could think about was my mama, how she had all these chickens...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 132–138.
Published: 01 March 2003
... leaves into a pot. Reina didn't seem offended. She just rolled her eyes at me. When Nabib and Ahmed said that it was the best meal they'd ever had, my sister beamed like a hundred suns. Toward the end ofN ovember, Reina announced that she was in need of a live chicken. "My friends need it for Ramadan...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 123–125.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in Denny's eating chicken fried steak. You're home in a wheelchair, behind you crystals & clocks hang from the walls in your house of colored glass. Orange plastic seats, hydrogenated 'steak': Denny's. On your wall the word NOW is tacked in gold. Clear vases & bowls sit filled with colored glasssome...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 6–16.
Published: 01 March 2003
... and why don't the tourists stop eating for once in their lives. I'm famished and I order chicken salad and cottage cheese and lettuce and tomato and a hard boiled egg and a hot cross bun and apple juice. She eyes me with disgust. To be sure, the timing of my stomach offends her serious religious practices...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 257–260.
Published: 01 September 2004
... is now characterized by regret and detachment: Her world was nappies chicken soup and the fence now alone she seeks defence Life has passed me by while I cleaned up the floor (32-37) "Waiting for the Rain" and "Card Reader Encounter" also address underachievement and despair. In the former poem...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 177–182.
Published: 01 March 2008
... concocted for me so I could to learn to fend for myself in this poor-black-woman-hating world. She stands in her faded flower housedress curling Over the steel sink sinking in a wail where my tears are still frozen. I amgoodtoo, She said. For the first time I saw my mother frying fish and chicken making...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 249–252.
Published: 01 October 2021
... .” Atlantic , June . www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ . Churchill Ward . 2003 . On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality . Chico, CA : AK Press . Crowcroft Orlando...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 226–256.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the rampant use of the hormone RUTH L. OZEKI AND TRANSNATIONAL REPRODUCTION 231 DES to fatten their chickens and cows for market, even though consuming these animal products leads to premature sexual development, male breasts and high voices, misshapen sexual organs, and infertility. These hormones, Jane...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 183–188.
Published: 01 September 2009
... parents that several of their children would not eat chicken skin she responded that of course they would not. No Montgomerys would. Myparents and older siblings did everything imaginable for Miss May. They planted and raised her cotton and corn, fed and killed and processed her cattle and hogs, painted...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 121–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
... journey above ground. The folk delicacy Mary feeds the narrator-a pork sandwich-nourishes him with the food a "down home boy like [him] needs" and fills him with the same fuel that presumably sustained his ancestors (Ellison 1963a, 248). In "Chicken and Chains: Using African American Foodways...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 187–217.
Published: 01 September 2001
... killed Chicken Little) with a promise of the "always" of herself, an assurance that perhaps only a girlfriend can make. Medallion community members marvel at his polite public gestures to Sula, and speculate that it is only appropriate that Shadrack treat Sula with some modicum ofrespect...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 73–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
... are attempting to understand what happens when street vendors give way, in effect, to McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Individual essays explore topics such as the rapid increase in overweight children, primarily boys, in recent years, nuances in how a Chinese Islamic community negotiates commercialized...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and fathers moving north Turning their backs on the crop-laden fields filled with histories of fear and blood Perhaps the whole county will fill with frogs, the fish will die, biting insects will descend, disease will spread among the horses, cows, chickens and pigs, their white skin will erupt...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 146–156.
Published: 01 September 2004
... to be the perfect snack as I played in the yard. I searched in vain for the spot where I had buried Ticrit, my pet chicken, who had died of jealousy after I successfully begged my mother to let me have a dog. And there was no sign of the little garden where I had dug in a mango seed, thinking I'd soon have a tree...
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