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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Kristie Soares Abstract This article looks at Rita Indiana’s performance work and latest novel as an example of Dominican futurism. Dominican futurism, like its counterpart Afrofuturism, centers the Dominican body in a technologically enhanced future, positioning it within a speculative world...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 22–50.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... In particular, hair—the subject and object of beauty shop work—epitomizes the mutual referentiality of race/sex/gender/class categories and identities. One can, as I found during a six-month participant observation at a Dominican beauty shop in New York City, “learn a whole lot of stuff sittin’ in them beauty...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Rachel Afi Quinn Abstract Afro-Dominican singer-songwriter Xiomara Fortuna has enjoyed a career that spanned more than four decades and shaped the work of a new generation of Dominican musicians. In March 2017 she was bestowed a presidential award of honor and she accepted it barefoot, making...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 128–156.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Ginetta Candelario ESSAYS HairRace-ing Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production GINETTA CANDELARIO Useto be Yacouldlearna wholelotofstuff sittinBin them beautyshopchairs Useto be Yacouldmeet a wholelotof otherwomen sittinthere alonBwith hairftyinB spitjlying and babiescryinB Useto...
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Nancy Kang Abstract Ciguapas are mythical creatures, typically represented as naked, comely females with uniquely backward feet. Such anatomy renders their path virtually untraceable. Legends suggest they inhabit remote mountains and forests in the Dominican Republic, preying on men. This essay...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the tension between these two poles, Alvarez undergoes a process of selfinvention through writing that situates her in the center of Latina literature and defines her as a Dominican and diaspora writer par excellence. I suggest that a novel such as HowtheGarc{aGirlsLostTheirAccents(1991) can be studied...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 69–91.
Published: 01 September 2004
... growing up Dominican in the U.S. I think that there isa conflictive relationship within the women, particularly the love part comes in where, "We're all in this together." There's outer society that is antiwomen or, you know, obsessed with women on a physical level, but on a spiritual level...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 September 2018
... a standard campaign promise has been to fix ongoing, energy-related problems. In a country where dependable Internet access continues to be a luxury even at the nation’s institutions of higher education. It also seems reasonable to add here that living in the Dominican Republic today as a black woman...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 2. Fortuna was awarded a Medal of Excellence in the Arts from the President of the Dominican Republic and the Ministerio de la Mujer .
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., in “La Reina de Fusión: Xiomara Fortuna Coming of Age in the Dominican Republic,” Rachel Afi Quinn helpfully contextualizes Fortuna’s Testimonio about the evolution of her leftist Black feminist race consciousness; her experiences of Blackness and anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic and abroad...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 October 2020
...; and where she can—and did—organize to replace her college president, a middle-aged White man who failed to address a public instance of discursive racial violence against a woman of color alumna, with a Latina (specifically, Dominican like us) president (Hardcollis and Bidgood 2015 ; Corasaniti 2017...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 September 2000
... women. GI NETTACANDELARIOis an instructor in sociology and Latin American and Latina/a studies at Smith College and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate School. She has published articles on Dominican racial identity in the United States, on Latina HIV/AIDS activism...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): v–x.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Counterpointssection entitled "Voices from Hispaniola" which commemorates a historic gathering of women writers from Haiti and the Dominican Republic in October 2003 under the auspices of Smith College in order to celebrate Haiti's 200th AnniversaryofIndependencine 2004 in a unique form, one which would respond...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 271–273.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... LOIDA MARITZA PEREZ was born in the Dominican Republic in 1963. She lives in New York City. Her most recent novel, GeographiesofHome(1999), was nominated for a Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. 272 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS NELLY ROSARIO was born in the Dominican Republic and raised...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and theorization of Black Vernacular English have long been underappreciated; this essay is a step toward correcting that misfortune. Given that Santo Domingo is the “cradle of blackness in the Americas” (Torres-Saillant 1998 , 126) and the birthplace of Black resistance and revolution, we chose the Dominican...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): ix–xv.
Published: 01 September 2000
... commentary on transnational representations is provided by Ginetta Candelario's description of women in a Dominican community in New YorkCity in her essay "Hair Race -ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production." In her study of beauty practices and ideals among Dominican women, she presents...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 249–252.
Published: 01 October 2019
... axioms. For example, by 1990 the anthropologist Eugenia Georges argued that Dominicans in the Dominican Republic and the United States should be studied together, as part of a unified social field that transcended national boundaries (Georges 1990 ). From there it was but a short step to the argument...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 299–301.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and will join that of other Dominican feminists whose calls for self-determination have echoed across the seas and continue to inspire their daughters to action. Finally, I take this opportunity to commemorate the recent passing of my mother, Elena María Candelario Cáceres (January 24, 1938–July 28, 2022...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 98–105.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., there was no word from the President, no sense ofleadership. It was not until Thursday that we finally heard his voice on the radio, thanks only to a press conference held on the occasion of the visit of the President of the Dominican Republic. 2 The Martyrdom of My Brother The horror of concrete: it took hours...
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