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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
...-Barnett’s appearance before three hundred people at the Bethel Literary and Historical Club ( Chicago Defender 1 January 1910 ). One of Wells-Barnett’s White male allies in the naacp, John Milholland, told Wells-Barnett that her accomplishments in Cairo were the “most outstanding thing that had been...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
... American women, the historical experiences of racialized reproduction and black and mulatto women's perspectives of it are much more complex. 2 This essay explores that complexity in the works of four Afro-Latin American writers (Brazilians Maria Firmina dos Reis and Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Cubans...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Paula Giddings Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 ESSAY Missingin Action Ida B. Wells, the NAACP, and the Historical Record PAULA GIDDINGS When Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)1 sat down at her long dining room table in 1928, three years before her death, to begin writing her...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Dia Da Costa Abstract This article combines historical and life-writing approaches to demonstrate how caste is made invisible in histories and structures of education, canonical knowledge, and research. As a dominant-caste ( savarna ) Bengali academic, the author follows caste-oppressed feminists...
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Beyond the Flesh: Contemporary Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature
Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 148–176.
Published: 01 June 2016
.../black female bodies. As cultural artifacts, I argue that these poetic/political constructs give evidence of Afro- Brazilian female bodies as historical: on one hand, they represent the embodiment of “otherness” as they historically differ from the standards of (white) “normalcy;” on the other hand...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of literary criticism, as well as historical writings dealing with African American mother-daughter conflict, centers on the observation that Black mothers have often found themselves in conflict with daughters whom they seek to protect by schooling them in accommodationist behavior to better survive...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
... “passing-as-if” to elucidate the historical, ontological, and epistemological processes at play when those non-white women without collectively revalorized racial identities turn to identify politically as Women of Color. I define passing-as-if as the assumption of racial identities reviled...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 81–110.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jessica Labbé Abstract “‘Too high a price’: The ‘Terrible Honesty’ of Black Women's Work in Quicksand ” assumes a New Historical lens to understand the novel through its historical context and, inversely, to reveal a new knowledge of history and culture through Larsen's writing. The author argues...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 June 2016
... are shared, appropriated, and reworked in order to understand Black women's reality. Thus, Brazilian Black women have built their political autonomy—that is, their ability to read and interpret reality—coming up with their own version of feminist thought based on the concrete and historical experiences...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Emily Lederman Abstract This essay argues that a queer archive in Felicia Luna Lemus’s Like Son (2007) recovers the historical Mexican figure Nahui Olin and allows the trans protagonist to navigate less tangible inheritances, including a destructive romantic legacy and a complex Mexican American...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 261–292.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of black (post)modern desires, as well as the potential to think through historical echoes of the current controversies and debates around exactly what constitutes “appropriate” black sexuality. Even as it offers a venue for acts of self-representation, pleasure, and exchange, hip-hop porn's brand...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
... about Pleasant, who provided major funding and leadership in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859—and indeed the stone that marks her grave reads simply: “M. E. P. She was a friend of John Brown”—because her role in the raid and in U.S. abolition is absent from nearly all historical documentation...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2009
... feminisms? Drawing from Native women artists' narratives, transnational feminist scholarship, and ethnographic and historical texts, the author demonstrates how indigenous communities become gendered communities as a result of colonialism. NANCY MARIE MITH LO "AReal Feminine Journey...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 308–325.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Sara C. Flowers Abstract Historically, Black women have contributed to the foundations of medical research, gynecology, sexuality education, and sexual and reproductive justice, and continue to do so today. However, the intersections of race- and gender-based oppression have repeatedly erased...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 295–307.
Published: 01 March 2018
... analytical approach to illuminate how Black women in Martinique draw from their experiences with dance to conceptualize holistic notions of health, well-being, and continuity. In a society where Black women have been historically objectified based on colonial notions of sexuality, are shamed as dependents...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of feminist movements; and to revisit her historical and contemporary contributions to internationalism, women of color feminism, and Jewish organizing in the Palestine solidarity movement. Levins Morales offers insightful reconsideration of her life, work, and philosophy, with descriptions of the context...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Laura Briggs Abstract Debt and imperialism have long been crucial questions for transnational feminism. This article attends particularly to recent and historical traditions of resistance in Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean. It argues that part of the intellectual and political struggle has been...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 295–320.
Published: 01 October 2020
... linguistic discrimination in an effort to transform the educational landscape and opportunities for historically marginalized communities. Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 testimonios accent perceptions higher education foreign Many scholars working as researchers, professors...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 410–434.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and Korean han (a culturally specific grief)—to show how Cha uses it as a subversive political tool to defer historical closure and to refuse her quiet assimilation. Cha’s remembrance of the histories of Japanese colonialism in the Korean peninsula and the Korean War defies the expectation that minority...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 39–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the same within historically established social hierarchies and the damage inflicted on the environment. Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 economic liberalization caste class gender environment There he was! Rani thinks he is handsome, like a movie hero. He even has that Amitabh beard...
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