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The Essence of Res(ex)pectability: Black Women's Negotiation of Black Femininity in Rap Music and Music Video
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 236–260.
Published: 01 September 2008
... around the performance of race, class, and gender as a means to resist dominant representations of black women, while simultaneously engaging in disciplinary practices that constrain black femininity. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 SHANARA R. REID-BRINKLEY The Essencoef Res(ex)pectability...
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The New Howard Woman: Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe and the Education of a Modern Black Femininity
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 25–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
... focus on Black masculinity and white femininity, respectively. This paper examines how Slowe’s advocacy of Black women operated on two intertwined principles: the universal right to grow into one’s potential and the obligation of each person to contribute her talent to social amelioration. Given her...
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“A Real Feminine Journey”: Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2009
... "AReal Feminine Journey": LocatingIndigenouFseminismisntheArts Abstract Despitetheprevailin9acceptancoef homo9enize9dlobalsensibilitiesin mediaproductions, manyAmericanIndianandotherindi9enousartistscontinueto articulatea soverei9n, boundeda, nddiscreteidentitybasedonland.family,andmemory.Bothmaterial...
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“I Cannot Find Her”: The Oriental Feminine, Racial Melancholia, and Kimiko Hahn's The Unbearable Heart
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Feminine and Racial Melancholia The Asian American female inhabits a position in the U.S. national unconscious that I will call the oriental feminine, a femininity produced by orientalism. Edward Said and others have noted that the "Orient" was produced discursively and epistemologically as a feminized...
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Feminist or Simply Feminine?: Reflections on the Works of Nana Asmā'u, a Nineteenth-Century West African Woman Poet, Intellectual, and Social Activist
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
... collected and translated into English with illuminating notes and commentaries (Boydand Mack 1997; Mack and FEMINIST OR SIMPLY FEMININE? 55 Boyd 2000), and I am heavily indebted to these publications for the texts and the critical groundwork on which the present paper is based. Educated by her father...
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“A Real Feminine Journey”: Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 310–339.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of Native women ever be comprehensible to feminist inquiries that often premise their arguments on the universal oppression of women? Adopting Naranjo’s perspective, if the whole world is feminine then how relevant can feminist thought be? This essay will track certain moments when feminist theory has...
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Meri Awaaz Suno : Women, Vocality, and Nation in Hindi Cinema
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 144–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
... singing for over four decades, and is known as the ideal voice of Indian femininity. The Lagaan theme song juxtaposes a saccharine, ultra-feminine Mangeshkaresque voice with two female choruses—one sensual and aggressive, the other light and airy. These varied female voices embody a range of sexual...
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Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2008
... analyze South Asian American chick-lit novels through sites—consumption, marriage, and realism—that are central to neoliberal subject-making, and that highlight the ways in which the novels work to produce a (trans)national, racialized, feminine subject embedded within neoliberalism, heteronormativity...
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Jhumpa Lahiri's Feminist Cosmopolitics and the Transnational Beauty Assemblage
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
... attachments of Indian female beauty's affects to experiences of citizenship and belonging can be understood as part of her feminist, cosmopolitical literary project: Lahiri mobilizes Indian feminine beauty's affects in order to illuminate and critique late-capitalist globalization, migration, and travel...
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“I'm So Proud to Be Your Queen”: Alison Hinds and Queenliness as a Diasporic Resource
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 78–102.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., titling her first solo album Soca Queen and her second Caribbean Queen . I argue that Hinds uses the Queen trope as a diasporic resource, allowing her to negotiate diverse standards of respectability, femininity, and sensuality while offering herself as a representation of Barbados, the wider Caribbean...
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The Crucible of Witnessing: Projects of Identity in Carrie Mae Weems's From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 26–52.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Claire Raymond Abstract This essay considers the ethically complex figure of the feminine witness to suffering by thinking in-depth about photographer and installation artist Carrie Mae Weems's installation From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (Weems 1995–1996). The essay is concerned...
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The Dirty Body that Cleans: Representations of Domestic Workers in Brazilian Common Sense
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 September 2015
...-resistant and infra-human. These components, in turn, are deeply permeated by Brazilian conceptions of blackness, whiteness, masculinity, femininity, and higher- and lower-class identities, and their interconnections with notions of cleanliness and filth. The article thus looks at common-sense...
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Witchcrafts of Color: Suzanne Césaire, Mayotte Capécia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in the colonial lore of female shapeshifters and sorceresses provides a counterreading to the beautiful and subservient woman of color of colonial fantasies. By situating West Indian femininity in a genealogy of supernatural camouflage, subterfuge, and transformation, Capécia and Césaire undermine misogynist...
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Ethical Reckoning: Human Rights and National Cinema in Bangladesh
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 151–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
... sociologist Patricia Hill Collins’s conceptualization of a Black gender ideology, the author proposes that in cinematic traditions, an idealized Muktijuddho gender ideology influences and entrenches gendered social norms and reinforces perceptions of masculinity and femininity in war. These perceptions serve...
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The Rise of the Madre Abnegada (Selfless Mother): Sara García and the National Maternal
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2019
... mother greater than you.” Finishing his sentence, Doña María says, “The mother of Jesus, who is always at my side.” Sara García’s portrayal of Doña María seamlessly elevates the madre abnegada as a moral, spiritual, and idealized feminine archetype. In Mi madrecita and dozens of other films...
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Crimes of Fashion: The Pachuca and Chicana Style Politics
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in the ways that they are used in "more orthodox cultural formations" (Hebdige 1989, 103). In fact, they may be used "in ways that alter or subvert their intended use-values" (Gaines 1985, 46). Figure2. A YOUNG WOMAN AND HER COMPANION (CIRCA 1942). SHE WEARS THE FEMININE VERSION OF THE ZOOT SUIT. CRIMES...
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“Out in the Streets”: Hip-Hop Narratives in Contemporary Greece
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 204–228.
Published: 01 April 2023
... , and dancehall have highly contested relationships with hip-hop in authenticity discourse. They are also considered more feminine compared to the “original” hip-hop dance, which is breakdance. 22 Popping , a funk style recognized as an “original” hip-hop dance, is another example of male-dominated dance...
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Tending to the Roots: Anna Julia Cooper's Sociopolitical Thought and Activism
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 23–55.
Published: 01 September 2005
...-century categorizations of]ohann Gottfried von Herder, Cooper depicts whites uniformly as a hearty and mathematically inclined people. 17 Blacks, in contrast, emerge as a harmless, feminine race, whose good-natured sensibilities function as the comfortable counterpart to whites' ambitious nature...
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The Formation of a Chinese Immigrant Working-class Patriarchy: Reinventing Gendered Expectations within the Structural Confines of U.S. Society
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 September 2009
... repertoire that consists of a collection of-sometimes contradictory- Yu SHI FORMATION OF A CHINESE IMMIGRANT WORKING-CLASS PATRIARCHY 33 "norms." These norms don't obliterate or replace one another but add layers to the existing content of normative femininity. They expand their collective scope and take...
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Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen's Passing and the Rhinelander Case
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2005
... "camouflage" the body for those special times when "we don't want to be seen-or when we don't want our true selves to show through" (FischerMirkin 1995, 12). Irene's and Clare's performance of a certain type of femininity, with fashion as their costumes and middle-class etiquette as their stage directions...
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