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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 September 2015
... transformation. Material change requires the engagement in a "cultural battle" where popular mentality is to be questioned, criticized, and ultimately reconstructed. Sharing this premise and understanding that cultural representations do not merely reflect but rather constitute reality (Hall 1997), this article...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of patriarchy, and expressions of sexuality that included agency and nonconformity. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 gender hip hop cultural representation hip hop feminism sexuality In the United States we have seen Black feminist scholarship engage hip hop studies in conversations around...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 389–409.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to this representation of Asian cultures as premodern and irrevocably opposed to the West, much as portrayed in Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” theory. The author illustrates this transnational feminist critique with a documentary used in Women’s Studies classes, Deborah Gee’s landmark film Slaying...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 March 2010
... anthology of cultural studies by the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, The EmpireStrikesBack:RaceandRacismin SeventieBs ritain(Gilroy 1982).However, it was only much later that theorists began to deconstruct the representation of these marginalized groups and link it to the discourse...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 43–60.
Published: 01 March 2007
... calls a “rebel consciousness” through representations of female rebels who refuse to “know duh place.” Cliff's rebel women combat and resist traditional representations of womanhood, patriarchy, colonial culture, and homophobia. The genealogy of the “fighting spirit” of Caribbean women is registered...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
Published: 01 March 2014
...]), my proposed comparison elucidates the Western and transnational leanings of this foundational “Caribbean” work and the ways in which it implicitly expands on Morrison's representations of female autonomy and visual culture. To that end, I borrow from and expand on Cheryl Wall's notion of “worrying...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 169–195.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Luz Calvo Abstract Inspired by the Chicana feminist artist Alma López’s Our Lady (1999), this essay explores Chicana cultural and psychic investments in representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. As an image of the suffering mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe is omnipresent in Mexican-American visual...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 93–129.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and its dance forms to empower women cross-culturally. She subverts traditional representations of womanhood in her songs and performances, thereby expanding existing definitions of womanhood. Hinds addresses women's ambivalent relationships with the performance and celebration of Caribbean culture...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and critique because she makes Black queer identity visible for a generation of Black women who must continue to search for positive, out representations (or any representation) oflesbian experiences in popular culture. As Kara Keeling suggests in her discussion of Black lesbian identity: "Black lesbian" still...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 99–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
... newspapers and William Still's social history The Underground Rail Road (1872) to reveal how antislavery culture wavered in its representation of single black women. On one hand, antislavery rhetoric emphasized black marriage as the epitome of civic freedom, while on the other hand admitting that women...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 193–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to the putatively “original” culture. In contrast to this tendency, reading Han’s original and Smith’s translation together makes visible the damages that both colonization and nationalism have inflicted on the representation of female experiences. In the end, what truly scandalizes nationalist critics...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 156–174.
Published: 01 April 2024
... filmmaker who made a feature-length narrative. Film is an important part of identity formation and shapes the perception of (Indigenous) cultures and peoples. From the late 1970s onward, there is a growing movement in Māori filmmaking which led to changes in the representation of Māori culture in film...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 205–210.
Published: 01 September 2008
... sell not only hip-hop culture, but also the very image of its women. They serve as eye candy designed to satisfy an assumed male video audience, affirming critiques of the culture as hyper-masculine and misogynist. “Still” is a series of photographs from contemporary rap music videos. These artworks...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 88–120.
Published: 01 March 2014
... spectators, but she also demands that her readers participate in the critical interpretive work necessary for recognizing the difference between “fact” and “fiction.” Her novel reveals that such cultural work is important for interrogating and reconfiguring past and present representations of black female...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 212–237.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and a discursive condition, that is, as what Foucault calls a biopolitics, these texts represent a feminist cultural activism that challenges the hegemonic forms of neoliberalism and transnational market relations. Despite their apparent focus on African-American women's bodies and their exploitation...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 March 2017
.../African-based cultural traditions as "primitive" and instead crafted nuanced critiques of anti-black racism. Focusing in on her Afro-Cuban heritage, Cosme embodied and performed racialized and sexualized representations of blackness. This paper follows the lead ofJudith Butler (1990) and Stuart Hall (1997...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 207–235.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in this professional and cultural accomplishment. This social media discourse reclassified N’yongo’s win as an exemplar of #Blackgirlmagic. Feminista Jones regularly posted similar triumphs of representation between March and December 2014, highlighting celebrities such as Simone Biles, Mo’ne Davis, Alysia Montano...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 121–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
...—as a necessary agent in the protagonist's emergence from the paint-factory hospital. As scholars have contested the significance of this chapter and Mary's representation in it, the Invisible Man drafts, made available to the public in 1998, reveal that this chapter is more significant than previously thought...
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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): 297–322.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of savarna feminists’ historical-material relation to caste. Narrating regional caste histories of savarna Bengalis, the author shows that her practice of writing castelessly is founded on material structures of power—historically claimed monopolies over culture and education, land, labor, and political...
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