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... that intersect at corresponding points: gender and race. This book constitutes a fresh departure and new angle in that she expands the scope of the Latin American literary terrain through a detailed examination of Afro-Costa Rican women poets such as Eulalia Bernard (old school) and the works of two younger...

...Dia Da Costa Abstract This article combines historical and life-writing approaches to demonstrate how caste is made invisible in histories and structures of education, canonical knowledge, and research. As a dominant-caste ( savarna ) Bengali academic, the author follows caste-oppressed feminists...

...Dorothy E. Mosby Abstract This paper is both a personal reflection and critical analysis of the circulation of the poem “Rotundamente negra” by Afro-Costa Rican poet and cultural activist Shirley Campbell among Afro-descendant women in Latin America. As I heard various recitations...

... Copyright © 2024 Smith College 2024 Erratum for Dia Da Costa, who respectfully declined the 2024 Paula J. Gidding Award Honorable Mention. However, despite her declination, Dr. Da Costa was erroneously included in the announcement page published in Meridians 23, no. 1 (2024...

... that vividlyconveys the central issues animating decolonial Black feminist politics and cultures in diverse countries and regional contexts. Byfocusing on the transnational dissemination of a powerful poem, RotundamentNe egra,by Black feminist Costa Rican poet Shirley Campbell Barr, feminist cultural critic Dorothy...

... on this theme, Dia Da Costa’s Essay , “Writing Castelessly: Brahminical Supremacy in Education, Feminist Knowledge, and Research,” intends to make clear the particularities of white supremacy and racism in an Indian postcolonial context where official castelessness operates alongside the social fact...

... Tegucigalpa Colomoncagua de banana republica fama Africa Arawak Caribe llama as{, de la costa de drama conquistador no call6 el idioma de! tambor con la lengua en la palma ah{ esta * popular music from the Garifuna or Black Caribs [Meridians:feminism,race,transnationalism2004, vol. 5, no. I, pp. 66-67] ©2004...

... Campbell in Costa Rica were both potential presidential candidates in their countries. 12 Many organizations of Black women in the region are now financed by states, international governmental organizations and NGOs. At the same time, an important sector of the Afro-Latin American feminist community...

... la trajo? .:Por que la conserve conmigo? Cada pregunta que me hago acumula perplejidades Ydesmemorias . .:es piedra de do o piedra de mar? .:Larecog{ en un riachuelo de la Sierra Maestra? .:Oacaso en las riberas de! buc6lico Clain, o de! Arno? .:Laencontre en la playa de Guanabo, o en la costa de...

.... For example, when the Consoliclacclo das Leis TrabalhistasCLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws) was established in 1943, domestic workers were excluded from its coverage because it was understood that maids carried out "non-economic" labor (Bernardino-Costa et al. 2011). The CLT was the first set of laws to unify...

... reserved. V ampton, Massachusetts, to Hartford, Connecticutt; Amherst, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco, California; Colchester, Vermont; San Juan, Costa Rica; Antwerp, Belgium; Cairo, Egypt; San Diego, California; Claremont, California; Manhattan, New York;Atlanta, Georgia; San Juan, Puerto...

... critically about how a continued focus on these kinds of social movements erases the activism of blacks, women, and poor people. Drawing from Joao Costa Vargas's (2014) essay on the apparent "black disidentification" with these street protesters and "the absence ofBlack people participating as Blacks" (3), I...

... term akin to black or African-American (instead of"colored," and, in Brazil, historically, pretoand multato) in the U.S. context. Blacks thus "officially" became the majority in 2010, representing 50.7 percent of the population. WORKS CITED Alvarez, Sonia E., Claudia de Lima Costa, Veronica Feliu...

... to this racial ideology is the notion that a progressive process of assimilation by the superior race could overcome the inferiority of the "negro" race; thus, the mestifo"individual, becomes the key element of transition and the ultimate icon of a unified national identity (Costa 2001, 143-2). Bymanipulating...

... feminism in the Americas has focused on the United States and the English speaking Caribbean (e.g., McDuffie 20n, Boyce Davies 2007). Little research focusing on Black women's intellectual history in Latin America exists in English. 2 The work ofBlack women theorists like Epsy Campbell (Costa Rica...

... on this piece or earlier versions of it, including Maruja Barrig, Elisabeth Friedman, Vera Soares, Gwendolyn Mink, Jonathan Fox, Virginia Vargas, Peter Waterman, Maylei Blackwell, Amrita Basu, Arturo Escobar, and, especially, Claudia de Lima Costa. 1. On first-wave feminist international activism, see...

... Samuel . 1972 . Racism and Psychiatry . New York : Bruner Meisel University Press . Thompson-Miller Ruth , and Feagin Joe . 2014 . Jim Crow’s Legacy: The Lasting Impact of Segregation . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield . Vargas Joao Costa . 2010 . Never Meant...

... of the disappeared. They were one of the founding members of FEDEFAM, Federaci6nLatinoamericana de Asociacionesde Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecido(sL,atin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of the Detained and THE GRANDMOTHERS OF THE PLAZA DE MAYO 33 Disappeared), an organization started in Costa...

... in Costa Rica but also the target ofUS conservative politics, the civil war in El Salvador has global reach. Indeed, the Iran-Contra affair serves to illustrate how implicated the entire world was in seemingly domestic wars in Central America. The name "Iran-Contra" elides US and Israeli involvement...

... and sustained notions of prostitutes as disposable people. Thus, while advocating a decriminalization and destigmatization of sex work and an improvement of conditions for practicing sex workers, sex worker organizations in some Caribbean countries echoed in such parts of the world as India, South Africa, Costa...