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... of confession as a strategy of self-awareness that facilitates black women’s capacity for vulnerability. The author employs the theology of feminist theologian Meehyun Chug and reflections of black feminist Audre Lorde to argue that the act of confession operates as a practice of conscientization, or a new...

..., telling him that she finds his job as a language translator "romantic" (57).As the intimacy between them builds, Mina, in a private moment with Mr. Kapasi during the tour, confesses a sexual secret. She tells him that unbeknownst to her husband, one of her children is the product of an extramarital affair...

.... They bring clouds of confessions, storms they have carried. They tempt me with confections, sweetness I no longer crave, dangling on small silver hooks tidbits of gossip, inedible as eclair. They violate the air around metalking, weeping, cajoling, beseechingthe flailings of earthly exile. The earth...

...Paula J. Giddings Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 PAULA J. GIDDINGS Editor'sPreface I confess that when Janell Hobson and R. Dianne Bartlow, co-editors of "Representin': Women, Hip-Hop, and Popular Music," offered to put together a special issue for Meridians,I was a little skeptical...

...: Image and Voice from the "Academic Borderlands" Ruth Behar initially traveled to Mexico as an untenured assistant professor from the University of Michigan to study women's confessions during the Inquisition of colonial times. Her research, however, acquired a life of its own when she met Esperanza...

...-old natal plot. Look it right in its round rough ancient eyes and confess away, tell it straight to its woody face, my about-to-do deed. I’ve even touch it on its limbs fingers begging forgiveness, give as much comfort to it as I could, while trying to explain the necessaryness...

... natal plot. Look it right in its round rough ancient eyes and confess away, tell it straight to its woody face, my about-to-do deed. I've even touch it on its limbs fingers begging forgiveness, 18 NIKKY FINNEY give as much comfort to it as I could, while trying to explain the necessaryness ofits...

...-membering Ourselves: Confession as a Pathway to Conscientization" to explain the healing process of confession and conscientization. Erin L. Berry-McCrea invades the digital world to demonstrate how language can be therapeutic in "'To My Girls in Therapy, See Imma Tell You This fo Free Black Millennial...

...,ace,transnationalism2007, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 117-141] ©2007 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 117 race,' 'racial scripts,' and 'cultural narratives ofrace,' these scripts convey various expressions of denial, justification, confession, guilt, anger, and withdrawal" (Frankenberg 1993, 137-90...

... at Kennedy airport in New Yorkand flown to Jordan before being handed over to Syrian intelligence. (He had left Syria as a teenager.) He was held for ten months and so brutally tortured that he agreed to confess to anything they wanted him to say. But the Syrians said publicly that they found no evidence...

... the racially designated Black men with whom the people of Salem were cohabitants. One such transcript of a courtroom examination on August 29, 1629, declares that a man named William Barker Sr. “confesse[d] . . . that the devil first appeared to him lyke a black man and [Barker] perceived he had a cloven foot...

... she arrived at her mother’s house she was told that in addition to being a liar and a thief, she was “‘someone who thinks she is a good person but really isn’t’ and someone who ‘would sell her own mother down the river.’” Her mother confesses to feeling betrayed by Walker after the publication...

.... In acknowledging this, her book looks at the nature of reconciliation through a lens that is personally intimate, psychologically nuanced, and culturally specific. In the interview that follows, I ask Gray to explain the dangers of holding secrets, the value of confessing one’s truth, and the complicated...

... to the 114 MERIDIANS 15: 1 purity of White women only, nor by the legal rights of free persons, much less Whites. Celia continued to be treated with contempt; her life was repeatedly threatened unless she confessed to murder. Essentially, she was considered guilty until proven innocent, which was in line...

... in settler cultures. New fertile lines of force ( forcis ) are generated to serve as enforcement mechanisms when older uses of force and violence become obsolete or illegal within settler legal systems. In a recent gang-rape case in Veracruz, a girl’s rapists were recorded on a Facebook Live video confessing...

... je n’ai plus rien à confesser, et vais rejoindre dans mon pays, tout ce que j’y ai quitté.” A ces mots, elle s’élance avec intrépidité vers le brasier dévorant. She walked slowly with her head bowed, when suddenly, in a burst of rage and despair, ripping the belt that held her shirt: “See, she said...

...(Nixon), they expose the alarming susceptibility of a generation of people (consumers) accustomed to viewing the computer monitor and television screen as "real." True confession: I want to believe, as Obama prompts, that "Yes,we can." Or as Dolores Huerta, VicePresident of the VFW,who originated...

... education as a boon to both the household and the state, she is careful to acknowledge and respond to her opponents' threats that educated women could prove undesirable to potential mates. Newly acquired knowledge by women, Cooper confesses, would irrevocably shift the uneven balance of power between...

... and watch the waxen sky. A fire snaps under the grill; people sprawl on the grass with their hats over their eyes. This survey is not going to guarantee anything. On an outbreath, Amancay confesses that, in just the same way that provincial governments permitted eviction attempts despite...

... a motorcycle or a tattoo, she would die,” confessed a Chinese student that the kid tutored on weekends. The threatening negative integer was also paired with considerable astigmatism. “Bad eyes, good grades,” reiterated Father proudly. At the fitting, the white optometrist was initially appalled...