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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 397–412.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Eman Ghanayem Abstract Part memoir, part theoretical reflection, this essay offers one answer to the question “How do Palestinians grieve?” In this narration of the author’s mother’s relationship to death, her multiple displacements, and her plan for her life, the term proactive grief is used...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 62–82.
Published: 01 September 2009
... subscribed to the belief that those with a “drop of African blood” were rendered less intelligent and creatively inept. Her crowning achievement was The Death of Cleopatra (1876) that was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876 to great acclaim. This paper offers critical insights...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 26. “Proper Child Spacing Prevents Infant Deaths,” a Birth Control Federation of America poster illustrating the impact of birth control in reducing infant mortality, undated. Florence Rose Papers, SSC.
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 157–185.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Himika Bhattacharya Abstract This article traces the memories surrounding the death of an adivasi woman, Shalini, from the northwestern Himalayan (adivasi/tribal) region of Lahaul, India. By focusing on how the memories of her death evolve in both official and community discourses, this article...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Patricia Ann Lott Abstract This essay analyzes Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) as a book of lamentations for its bereaved black subject’s mother loss, social death, and prematurely ended girlhood. More specifically, it examines a daughter’s devastation over her natal alienation, violent...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
...K. Melchor Quick Hall Abstract In this essay the author describes how she orchestrates her own death for her mother’s survival and begins to travel with her dying grandmother. She shares lessons from her grandmother’s elongated, memory-less, graceless dying through a series of vignettes. While her...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 141–162.
Published: 01 September 2009
... discourses. While most critics read Cliff's reclamation of matrilineal history and resistance as unabashedly celebratory, I argue that the novels, especially No Telephone to Heaven , offer a more ambivalent perspective through the construction of the female body as a site of death. The imbrications...
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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 (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Christen Anne Smith Abstract Black woman, scholar, and visionary—Beatriz Nascimento was a critical figure in Brazil's Black Movement until her untimely death in 1995. Although she published only a handful of articles before she died and left only a few other recorded thoughts, her ideas about...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 455–479.
Published: 01 October 2022
... but also the living, tending to immaterial energies that shift the fecund terrain of both life and death. 18 Reyes, interview. 19 Reyes, interview. 20 Reyes, interview. 21 This understanding of ephemera as evidence is being adopted from Muñoz’s ( 1996 ) essay by the same name...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
... “for the normalization of exclusionary practices,” which the Nijmegen school calls a process of “B/Ordering as Ordering and Othering .” Second, it positions porteadoras ’ deaths and risks to their health within the political and the religious order; Muslim Moroccan women operate within strong religious and cultural...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 503–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the roles that grief, death, Black motherhood, and the Black southern oral tradition play within their ever-growing bond. As their relationship progresses from researcher and respondent to mother and daughter, their bond displays the connective tissue that binds one person to another through history, memory...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 478–502.
Published: 01 October 2023
...,” college-educated Black women who were trained to uplift the race. And as race women in the death trade, they brought their skills and education to a field that created generational wealth and civic empowerment. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 undertaker race women...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 528–547.
Published: 01 October 2024
...-making, while using speculative elements such as transforming into a railroad to demonstrate the intractable social death of enslavement. Works Cited Afro-Pessimism: An Introduction . 2017 . Minneapolis. https://libcom.org/files/AfroPessimismread_Afro-pessimism-AnIntroduction.epub . Brown...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 24. “Abortion Facts,” a Birth Control Federation of America poster promoting contraception as a means of preventing abortion-related deaths, undated. Florence Rose Papers, SSC.
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 350–370.
Published: 01 October 2022
... 2022 Smith College 2022 death mourning care intimacy touch “You need to touch the body softly, you have to be gentle,” she noted. “The water shouldn’t be cold or hot, just warm enough, like the water you use to wash babies. Treat the body like she’s still alive.” These are the words...
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Published: 01 October 2022
Administration. b) Record for the death of Ada Peters Brown. Courtesy of FamilySearch Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803–1915, citing Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. c) Unnamed young African American woman, most likely Laura Tucker
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the mother’s only child, the murder has obvious implications. On the other side of the child’s death, the mother might contemplate: what does it mean for one to mother and to claim the status of “mother” when bereft of the person/people enabling her to inhabit that identity? Even if the mother has other...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 290–299.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the current social landscape. Myincorporation of #BlackLivesMatter into the classroom stemmed from a weeklong discussion of the murder ofTrayvon Martin in February 2012. The majority of my students had not paid much attention to Martin's death and those that knew of his death heard about it through the hash...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Kimberly Juanita Brown; Jyoti Puri Mourning is our response to a world in which death is tied to the structures of race, sexuality, gender, class, disability, religion, nation, and more. We seek to offer feminist genealogies of mourning that are anchored in the normalized conditions and legacies...
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