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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
... (Carby 1992 ). 1 surrogation catastrophe R&B/soul disenfranchisement protest Copyright © 2008 Smith College 2008 ...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 15–18.
Published: 01 September 2008
... they hadseenon Viacom-ownedTV. I said hip hop hip hippety hip hop and you don't stop don't stop don't stop the onward march of new millennium protesters fighting WTO NATO Haliburton and UN incompetence in the face of femicide, genocides and the military industrial complex Are we still perplexed by this new hip...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 163–173.
Published: 01 September 2009
... are back home in Oakland performing our own ritual of pizza and watching the election results on the tube. (Yes,we still have a television with a tube.) I am not eating pizza, as I am on the second day of a fast in solidarity with the "Fast for the Future" protesters down in La Placita in Los Angeles. 2...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 127–161.
Published: 01 September 2006
... the 1876 criterion. 2 The amendments were not passed easily. Male-dominated band councils and Indian organizations protested vehemently against the women and their allies. They were accused of being complicit with a long history of colonization and racism that imposed, often violently, non-Indian...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 219–254.
Published: 01 December 2020
... organizations protested vehemently against the women and their allies. They were accused of being complicit with a long history of colonization and racism that imposed, often violently, non-Indian principles and institutions on Indian peoples. This history was represented as being furthered by the women’s...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 13–21.
Published: 01 December 2020
... college in New Orleans, I was a fiery activist. I took up the cause of all kinds of disenfranchised groups. Dillard had a required chapel, which meant as a student you had to go to chapel, a Protestant service. My father was a Baptist minister and so this was a culture that I understood. But I had...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... disenfranchisement and white patriarchal and legislative power, arrogance, and humility. 1 Candles in the Wind: Surrogation and (Collective) Griefin the Age of Pop Protest Within the first two and a half weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, a stunning four separate relief benefit telethons aired...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): v–viii.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., groundbreaking scholarship, and protest fashioned into art to yield. Historically the thunderclap borne of such tensions portends transformative moments, periods of unprecedented creativity and insight. Revealed are numerous sites of the underground spring with its own inexorable will to rise. As the new editor...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 214–218.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... The landscape, however, is too heavily seeded by courageous activism, groundbreaking scholarship, and protest fashioned into art to yield. Historically the thunderclap borne of such tensions portend transformative moments, periods of unprecedented creativity and insight. Revealed are numerous sites...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 32–53.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Cynthia Wu Abstract My essay addresses non-normative genders and sexualities in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging , a controversial novel set in Hawai'i that—although commercially successful and critically acclaimed—has spurred protests over its racist portrayals of Filipino masculinity. I show how...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
... a bachelor of arts (Yasin Puertas 2013 ). Azizi was forty-one and had studied Arab literature at the University of Fez. However, due to political protests at the university, she decided to work as a porteadora (a Moroccan Muslim woman who migrates daily from Beni Enzar in Morocco to Melilla in Spain...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 427–452.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., mobilize the masses, and raise consciousness about justice. The use of social media helps to reframe radical politics as movement between protest and politics; it signals a strategic continuum on which the movement works against and within existing structures as it demands a more radical transformation...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 179–186.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... And so the affiliation with a foremother was cut by the sense of disenfranchisement, the awareness of a racialized world which would force my own body into the shadows, into the bushes, away from the "immaculate others." And this in spite of, perhaps even intensified by, the fact that Woolf herself...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
... for large protests. In this period, the large Chicago churches like Bethel, Quinn, and Institutional were loathe to permit protest meetings held by insurgents, and especially Wells-Barnett. In the end, she did write an article about the mob action that elicited praise from the Black Chicago newspaper...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2001
...). But after sixteen years of activism she had made enough enemies among the black leadership-in Chicago as well as outside, including the powerful accommodationistBookerT. Washington-to be obstructed from the usual venues for large protests. In this period, the large Chicago churches like Bethel, Quinn...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
... from decision-making by military authorities as well as by the major political parties. She underlined how women protesters had experienced humiliation and violence by both security forces and extremists: Marchers celebrating International Women’s Day were harassed and abused. Women protesters have...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 89–103.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., 61). In fact, the antiwar protest of the 1970 National Chicano Moratorium and the 1973 United Farm Workers' (UFW) strike and grape boycott inhabit leading roles in Carpi's work. These two novels address many important issues, including the treatment ofVietnam veterans, pesticide contamination...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and political parties came under sharp criticism from Secretary Clinton for shutting out Egyptian women from decision-making by military authorities as well as by the major political parties. She underlined how women protesters had experienced humiliation and violence by both security forces and extremists...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 169–195.
Published: 01 December 2020
... is the sorrowful mother, a figure who embodies the suffering of Chicano/a and Mexican populations in the context of colonization, racism, and economic disenfranchisement. The Virgin of Guadalupe is a polyvalent sign, able to convey multiple and divergent meanings and deployed by different groups...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of Chicano/a and Mexican populations in the context of colonization, racism, and economic disenfranchisement. The Virgin of Guadalupe is a polyvalent sign, able to convey multiple and divergent meanings and deployed by different groups for contradictory political ends. For example, the Catholic Church...