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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 52.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Purvi Shah PURVI SHAH A newgarden,herhairsupplanted In my mother's time, I pin her hair. The comb flutters through strands, my hands awkward-like, grasping to clasp it all together. "No," she whispers, "Just pull up and back. No comb." She is teaching me how to conserve each hair, how to keep each...
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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 (2000) 1 (1): 128–156.
Published: 01 September 2000
... alonBwith hairftyinB spitjlying and babiescryinB Useto be youcouldlearna wholelotabout howto catchup with yourself and someotherfolks in yourhousehold. LotsmoreBOtakencareof than hair.. .. -Willi Coleman", AmongtheThings ThatUseto Be" At the most banal level, a beauty shop is where women go for beauty...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
... the ways the global black hair industry acts as a mechanism for work, production, value, agency, and mobility, we would be remiss if we did not include a discourse on the black hair industry, for it alternately critiques, challenges, and participates in binary conceptions of race, socioeconomic class...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 382–392.
Published: 01 March 2018
... significance of informal helping networks, spirituality, and interdependence found in the Black community. Based in Africana Womanism, an exploration of healing modalities in traditional African societies reveals the influential role of hair and spirituality in holistic wellness practices. Therefore...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 22–50.
Published: 01 December 2020
... sittin' there along with hair frying spit flying and babies crying Use to be you could learn a whole lot about how to catch up with yourself and some other folks in your household. Lots more got taken care of than hair . . . . —Willi Coleman, “Among the Things...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 161–190.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of "white imitation" was raised. A brief discussion of"non-white" women desiring to mold themselves after "white" ideals-pale skin, lightcolored hair, etc. -proceeded verysympathetically by contextualizing the phenomenon within hegemonic colonial and postcolonial economies of power, with attention...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 97–106.
Published: 01 September 2018
... consciousness distinguishing two aspects of one issue: to make visible and to problematize the elements related to racism and its manifestations, as well as to undertake and reclaim a process of racial affirmation. The first aspect materializes when women consider the headwrap and their natural hair...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 31–35.
Published: 01 March 2014
... could feel the whole side of her body warm up, [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2014, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 31-35) © 2014 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 31 her hair, her face, her wrinkled sheets. She got out from beneath her covers and touched all the warm parts of herself. Lying...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... then helps to construct ideas about race" (para. 2). These facts aren't new, but that doesn't mean that they hurt any less. In Barner's (2017) commentary "The Personal Is Digital: Exploring Race, Beauty and Hair Online," she spotlights the digital uproar by Black women in response to Black hair product line...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 36–40.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in France, with those flat stacks of records? Did this girl have an antique dresser with a lock? And did she string the key on a ribbon? Was it a white silk ribbon -was it a slender key? Remember where your parents shopped. Yourmother twisted your hair and your sister's into two plaits, so you wouldn't...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 152–160.
Published: 01 April 2019
... a small collision (because I always take my shoes off in the car and that tiny curled pinky toe fits so easily under the lip of the door). It’s them that I take after, not my own (actually) white mother, dainty and small-boned and thin-haired, with red splotches on her face. I have my dad’s—my DAD’s...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 507–517.
Published: 01 March 2017
... some kind of chord" and people were like, "Oh no, we don't like this. It doesn't sound like our music." Don't Touch MyHair AL:I was just laughing about a post I made on Facebook. I don't know if you saw a stupid post I made. I just came back from Amsterdam and got my hair searched. And I don't even...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 128–129.
Published: 01 March 2001
... flipped our skirts on the playground: then we felt a kind of dirt no one showed us how to wash off. [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2001, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 128-29] ©2001 by Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. 128 3. in school we straightened our skirts & kept our hair brushed. pee...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 39–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... saying Christian on a school form, and letting someone tell you what you can and cannot do every Sunday. After cleaning the desks, the ladies will change into another pair of gloves to clean the bathrooms. Pah, that is where the real dirt is! Indians are dirty, Rani thinks, as she sees the hair...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): v–ix.
Published: 01 September 2018
... centers and responds to interlocking oppressions and, consequently, informs transnational politics of solidarity among women of color across the world. Finally, Julie Iromuanya explores the global black hair industry, its African immigrant iterations in the United States, and its representation...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2008
...? Memory believes. Can knowing remember? Someone with white hair beckons me. She sings an air I do not know. She kneels under a rain tree, flings grain of sticky rice into the sea as the sun soars into that darkness Plotinus sought When he mused on the soul, 52 MERIDIANS 8:2 its very shape a flaming...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... Many teased their hair into high bouffants (called "rats") and wore what was considered excessive makeup . They usually donned short skirts and long coats (Figure 2), and some wore the masculine version of the zoot suit (complete with "punjab" pants and "finger-tip" coats). Angela McRobbie has charged...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that rolls after the credits portrays a working-class Dominican woman (seemingly another performance of drag) sitting with a neighbor, her living room essentially set up on the street. Wearing a house dress and skirt (over what appears to be a T-shirt and shorts), house slippers, and the quintessential hair...
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