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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 121–147.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Brazil's tremendous successes with respect to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, this article offers a framework for understanding the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on African-descendant women in the country. The analysis focuses on the gender and racial dynamics of HIV/AIDS and seeks to center Afro...
View articletitled, Centering African-<span class="search-highlight">Descendant</span> Women in HIV/AIDS Research, Policy, and Praxis in Brazil
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2016
...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...
View articletitled, Traveling Words: A Reflection on “Rotundamente negra” and Afro-<span class="search-highlight">Descendant</span> Women's Cultural Politics
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 118–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... for this gathering was to have a major intervention: in the twenty-first century, Black/Afro-descendent women need to conspire. We understand a conspiracy to be an act of love and care; a search for equity and equality; an affirmation of our beauty; a commitment to guaranteeing access to food, education and health...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 513–521.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Claudia Ferreira; Adriana Medeiros Abstract These three brief pieces formed part of a two-part special issue (vol. 4, nos. 1 and 2, 2016) on Afro-Descendant Feminisms in Latin America. The unprecedented nationwide mobilizational process that culminated in the first-ever Marcha das Mulheres Negras...
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View articletitled, March against Racism and Violence and in Favor of Living Well ( bem viver) , Brasilia 2015 : National Black Women’s March November 18
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Beyond the Flesh: Contemporary Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature
Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 148–176.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Flávia Santos de Araújo Abstract This essay takes an intersectional and transnational approach to analyze how selected poetic texts by contemporary Afro-Brazilian writers Conceição Evaristo, Esmeralda Ribeiro Cristiane Sobral, Miriam Alves, and Elisa Lucinda (re)design portrayals of Afro-descendant...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Karen Y. Morrison Abstract This essay describes the common concerns about the social reproduction of race found in the works of pioneering Afro-Latin American writers Maria de Fermina Reis, Irma Pedroso, Carolina Maria de Jesus and Daisy Rubiera Castillo. Each was the first African-descended woman...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 82–96.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Amani Morrison Abstract In the United States, black hair—that is, the hair of African-descended peoples—has a long and fraught political, economic, and social history that informs its contemporary reception: at the interstices of self-making, aesthetic expression, and respectability politics, black...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 73–74.
Published: 01 April 2022
... for their survival, protected their shared histories, and guided their descendants on a path toward a more liberated future. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022 diaspora Blackness identity spirituality womanism There are roadmaps in my great-great-grandmother’s braids...
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Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 2. March participants from the Northern state of Pará, which has dozens of quilombo communities—rural Black settlements often inhabited by descendants of for slaves or settled and cultivated by generations of Black families. Photo by Adriana Medeiros.
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): v–xi.
Published: 01 June 2016
... project, we are pleased to present Part I of a two-part special issue focusing on African descendant Feminisms in Latin America. This issue grew out of our shared intellectual and political concern that academics and activists in the U.S. lacked exposure to critical insights and innovations offered...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): v–ix.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., antiracist, postcolonial/decolonial, and anti-imperial political alliances and epistemologies. This is particularly the case among Afro-descendant feminisms and all who embrace anti-racist politics; the "intertwined diasporas" that forged Blackness in the Americas make it "imperative that the vernacular...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., in that moment I start asking questions: What does it mean to be a Woman? What does it mean to be a woman in the Dominican Republic today? What does it mean to be Haitian-descended or a Haitian migrant in the current Dominican context? To be a woman, as I learned it, is to be reasonable, to be persistent...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 70–75.
Published: 01 June 2016
...-Brazilian women's activism by organizers, participants, and observers alike, the Marchainvolved every conceivable sector of Afro-descendant women's organizing and many women from the mixed-gender Brazilian Black movement as well. It therefore merits a special place in Part I of our special issue on Afro...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 508–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... by organizers, participants, and observers alike, the Marcha involved every conceivable sector of Afro-descendant women’s organizing and many women from the mixed-gender Brazilian Black movement as well. It therefore merits a special place in Part I of our special issue on Afro-descendant Feminisms in Latin...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 56–70.
Published: 01 September 2016
... are Afrodescendants; this is a term that recognizes our ancestry. We are descendants of the people of African origin who were brought to Latin America and the Caribbean enslaved. We are descendants of the people who came deprived of their freedom, people with culture, traditions, languages, customs and dreams. From...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 490–509.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of slavery as well as about Black enslaved people bought and sold by the non-Black folks in Mauritania. Back then, I didn’t know that there were Black Mauritanians. 13 Later, my friend asked if I was a descendant of slaves. At the beginning, I did not like this [question] at all and for me...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2023
... migrations from all of its Global South outposts to Europe, as did Italy’s twentieth-century colonial projects in East Africa, from Eritrea to Somalia (El-Tayeb 2011 ). Likewise, two of France’s most celebrated literary icons, Alexandre Dumas père and Alexandre Dumas fils, were descended from an enslaved...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
Published: 01 October 2023
...-Sylvain landed in Léopoldville, she arrived as a Haitian-born Belgian national accompanying her husband as a member of the Belgian colonizing project. Because Comhaire-Sylvain was a direct descendant of nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries who fought French colonial rule, and the daughter...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., "a reenactment of the slave trade intended to mend the psychic wounds of the descendants of slaves" (104). Serving a similar function at the maison, the Slavery Freedom Monument stands near the Door and declares the end of slavery, depicting a man raising unshackled arms while being embraced by a woman.' In thus...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the contributions of Africans and their descendants to Cuban dance, music, and literature. Artists commodified non-commercial, working-class African cultural forms to create a national aesthetic (Moore 1997). Women of African descent were integral in the development of aftocubanismpor,imarily as subjects "portrayed...
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