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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 376–381.
Published: 01 November 2018
... elections. Grace Mugabe’s rise to power became the rallying point for ZANU PF to evict their longtime leader. Her fall from power has been used to restrict the voices of women even in this new era of political openness. Each cycle of Zimbabwean politics comes with a theme. The themes are often infused...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 September 2010
... particularly relevant given the history of intervention of the U.S. in El Salvador and the recent historic presidential elections in both nations. Copyright © 2010 by Smith College 2010 ARIANA VIGIL Transnational Community in Demetria Martinez's MotherTongue Abstract...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to the struggles of today, including issues of violence, mass incarcerations, and the election of the first black president of the United States. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 What Would Harriet Do?A Legacy of Resistance and Activism A ConversatiownithBarbaraSmithand BeverlyGuy-SheftalMl, oderatedby...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 204–232.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of national elected office at the same time that black feminists were institutionalizing their activism into organizations, Chisholm bridged grassroots and local activism with the national state. She also bridged the ongoing black freedom struggle and women's movements, though not without complication...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 163–173.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and his country. But had I been among that Grant Park Chicago crowd at Barack Obama's election-night victory speech when he announced, "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible ," courage would have required me to have raised my hand as one...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Ginetta E. B. Candelario Works Cited Associated Press . 2020 . “ In India, Firecrackers and Prayers to Celebrate Harris’ Win .” Politico , November 8 . www.politico.com/news/2020/11/08/india-kamala-harris-election-435087 . CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) . 2020...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 177–182.
Published: 01 September 2009
... virtually-a reality that became all the more clear on the days of and after the election. Indeed, it was the organization that was so amazing. As David Carr noted in the NewYorkTimes("Obama's Personal Linkedin," Monday, Nov. ro, B1,B6), the Obama campaign managed to combine social networking with local...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Kathleen Banks Nutter Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 IN THE ARCHIVES ThePapersof ConstanceBakerMotley Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College KATHLEEN BANKS NUTTER The papers of Constance Baker Motley, the first African American woman elected to the New York State Senate...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., Hawaii, or Alaska, they can participate in all—local, state, and federal—elections except those held in Puerto Rico. 5 Literate women were granted the right to vote in island elections in 1929; this meant that it was largely white, upper-class Puerto Rican women who were enfranchised. It wasn’t...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): v–vi.
Published: 01 September 2009
... responses to the historic election of 2008. In this issue, our archival section, created, in part, to document our immediate and even raw reactions to momentous events, is dedicated to the election of Barack Obama. Among progressives, his successful campaign for the U.S. presidency inspired pride...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2005
... such unfair practices. However, in a televised statement during one of his election campaigns, President Mugabe warned women against such "culturally unacceptable demands" and reiterated that under no circumstances would the neocolonial state approve of women's ownership of family property. Ifblack Zimbabwean...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 236–240.
Published: 01 March 2006
... for the presidential elections in Egypt. A multilingual, widely traveled scholar and activist, OBI OMA NNAEMEKA is Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African/African Diaspora Studies and a former Director of the Women's Studies Program at Indiana University, Indianapolis. Professor Nnaemeka is the founder...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 207–211.
Published: 01 September 2018
... were black. 7 The social movement for black lives is as significant in the United States as it is in Brazil as these two countries share egregiously similar realities. Marielle had been elected councilwoman of the city of Rio de Janeiro in 2016 with a massive vote. This outcome stunned...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 93–102.
Published: 01 March 2004
... far beyond just casting votes during elections. Electoral processes and political campaigns are of course important watersheds. However, if citizen action and participation are geared solely towards candidates and their campaigns, then citizen participation will wither away over time...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
Published: 01 April 2020
... is entwined with the liberation of another. We want comrades, not allies in the struggle (Lakey 2015 ). Toward those ends, we created a model for how to engage the participation of nonimmigrants and non-low-wage workers. Donald Trump’s election created a whirlwind moment that presented both threats...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... Zealously fusing themes of patriotism and religion, “¡Mater admirabilis!” elevates motherhood to heroic stature. The poem was written by Antonio Mediz Bolio, a journalist and lawyer from Yucatán. Holding the elected position of state secretary in the first decade of the twentieth century, he was a vocal...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 82–109.
Published: 01 April 2024
... this: farm workers, small producers, Indigenous people, quilombolas , and traditional communities. We now have one woman elected to Congress, but one is not enough. Our fight is collective; we need more than one. We will support Indigenous women running for office at all levels of institutional politics...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 October 2020
... parents at the border and housing them in cages (Briggs 2020 ), our elected officials have put Republican Party interests above the constitutional principles they are sworn to abide by. One could easily lose heart. Until, that is, we remind ourselves that “we were made for these times,” as post...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 281–282.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Caucus resist all efforts to undermine the civil liberties that have been so critical to our survival as a people and to their verypresence as elected representatives. We stand in solidarity with Afghan women and women throughout the world whose very violent survival hinges upon a nonviolent solution...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
... at four key historical moments: during Zia ul Haq’s military dictatorship marked by aggressive Islamicization, during the years of Benazir Bhutto’s democratically elected government, during the years of General Pervez Musharraf’s more socially liberalizing dictatorship, and in the first five years after...
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