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Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chinyere Okafor Abstract This paper aims to uplift a story by a queer Black woman activist residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Using various narrative analysis techniques, this paper also explores the tales told to understand how queer people in the Caribbean create a home of recognition...
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Rewriting Exile, Remapping Empire, Re-membering Home: Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., and consequently, implications for the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Although MulberryandPeach narrates a Chinese woman's journey away from home, it is not a unidirectional and univocal narrative, the structure of which corresponds to a uniform individual's quest for self-knowledge, spiritual...
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Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 261–263.
Published: 01 September 2004
... their motherland is important because it creates a dual sense of home for many Filipino Americans. American incursion in the Philippines gave Filipinos a sense that they were a part of America before they even emigrated. Once in America, they found that they were not necessarily allowed to participate...
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She Who Returned Home: The Narrative of an Afro-Guyanese Activist
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
... societies, the longing for redefined/reconstituted communities outside of their home countries and across vast oceans, and the desired eventual return to their societies of origin to (re)create viable economic, political, and sociocultural environments there (Chamberlain [Meridians:feminismr,ace...
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Racial House, Big House, Home: Contemporary Abolitionism in Toni Morrison's Paradise
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 40–67.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Megan Sweeney MEGAN SWEENEY RacialHouse, BigHouse, Home ContemporaArybolitionismin ToniMorrison'Psaradise Theythink they haveoutfoxedthewhiteman,wheninfact theyimitate him Howexquisitelyhumanwasthewishfor permanenht appiness, andhowthin humanimaginationbecametryingto achieveit. -Reverend Misner...
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Globalizing Home: Editor's Introduction
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): v–xii.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Myriam J. A. Chancy MYRIAM J.A. CHANCY Globalizing Home Editor'Isntroduction Ifyouwantto knowme, Lookinsideyourheart. -Lao Tzu,TaoTeChinn We are living in an age when it is now more possible than it ever was to overcome barriers oflanguage, culture, distance to communicate both to strangers...
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Going Home: A Feminist Anthropologist's Reflections on Dilemmas of Power and Positionality in the Field
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 143–162.
Published: 01 March 2007
.... Copyright © 2007 by Smith College 2007 M. CRISTINA ALCALDE Going Home AFeminisAt nthropologistR'seflectionosn DilemmaosfPowerandPositionality in theField Abstract Inthisessay,I drawonmy.fieldworikn Lima,Peruto criticalleyxplortehepowerrelationships withinmy...
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Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... (albeit labor-intensive), but for the few days that we do this, we (my mother and I) become coauthors of a story that constitutes history as present, history as an intricate witnessing of our own experiences of living, then and now. This exercise is to home both my mother and I without the overbearing...
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Decolonizing Britain and Domesticating Women: Race, Gender, and Women's Work in Post-1945 British Decolonial and Metropolitan Liberal Reform Discourses
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... liberalism,” one that must now reassert its authority at home and abroad. To grasp what is at stake in calls for the reinvigoration of an active, muscular liberalism as simultaneously the indigenous personality and identity of not only the British “people” and nation, but indelibly of the West, they must...
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Proactive Grief: Palestinian Reflections on Death
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 397–412.
Published: 01 October 2022
... conditions, this essay also reflects on the difficulty of writing about grief while being personally entangled in its complicated emotions. Ultimately, her mother’s proactiveness and commitment to home within and beyond life present an intimate narrative and a family history that could show readers what...
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Introduction
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 91–97.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Gina Athena Ulysse Abstract This small collection of Haitian women's reflections on the earthquake offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of how several women at home and in the diaspora lived through this moment, their responses and the continuous impact on our lives. The works are composed...
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Covert Wars in the Bedroom and Nation: Motherwork, Transnationalism, and Domestic Violence in Black Widow's Wardrobe and Mother Tongue
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2013
... theory of motherwork and survival for women of color to show how characters in the novels confront violence by doing motherwork. The article employs a transnational reading of the texts to argue that in this context domestic violence has a double meaning—that of the home and that of the nation...
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Afrodiasporic Feminist Conspiracy: Motivations and Paths forward from the First International Seminar
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 118–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... care, as well as a home and a place of dignity in the world's history to millions of Black/Afro-descendent women. We need to conspire to secure access to adequate care and treatment to Black/Afro-descendent women living with HIV, and to preserve the land of deracinated women. Black feminism and all...
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Werewere Liking's Village Ki-Yi: Dissidence and Creativity in Abidjan
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 186–203.
Published: 01 September 2015
... abandoned or orphaned children whom she literally gathers in the streets of Abidjan, giving them a home and a future. This essay analyzes Liking's creative accomplishments using feminist theories pertaining to performance, literature, and activism, demonstrating how Liking is an agent for social justice...
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Signifying, Narrativizing, and Repetition: Radical Approaches to Theorizing African American Language
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 218–242.
Published: 01 December 2016
...-standard” language varieties are only appropriate for use in the home or social settings. Thus, as an alternative to code-switching pedagogical practices, the author introduces a comparative approach that may be applied across all minority language groups. This technique highlights African and African...
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Triangular Voyages: Locating the Transnational Caribbean Woman in Paule Marshall’s “To Da-duh, in Memoriam”
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 464–490.
Published: 01 March 2017
... diasporic scholars, the essay foregrounds issues that have come to define notions of transnationalism, and it elucidates their specific implications for Caribbean women; these issues include representations of home and ancestral connections, negotiations of public and domestic spaces, and depictions black...
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Are We All Feminists? The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of the “Americanah” identity—the repatriated immigrant “with odd affectations, pretending to no longer know” home (2013a, 78)—also presents a unique observation of the ways that black hair and its commerce are also attendant, if not central, to notions of feminist ideology, both African and Western, advocated...
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Unweepable Wounds Unwept: Mother Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the domestic maternal passage as her transfer from white mother to mistress, a passage that sets in motion her exile from home and entrance into the hell of slavery. This passage is procreative of her social death and an open wound in her memory of mother loss and her mother hunger. Moreover, she is plagued...
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Young Afghan-Canadian Women’s Negotiations of Gendered Cultural Scripts and Hybrid Cultural Identities
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 410–439.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Saher Ahmed; Amrita Hari Abstract A hybrid identity is neither a happy nor an undesirable mixture; it involves negotiating sometimes two contrasting cultural identities of the home and host nations. Research on post-migratory negotiations of gender identity, roles, and expectations has found...
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Black Women Undertakers of the Early Twentieth Century Were Hidden in Plain Sight
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 478–502.
Published: 01 October 2023
... home legacy. The article follows women from the American South and mid-Atlantic regions, illustrating how, with their skills and capital, they labored not just as funeral directresses, embalmers, and undertakers but also as bookkeepers, hairdressers, accountants, caterers. These women were “race women...
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