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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
Published: 01 March 2014
... that Kincaid appropriates Morrison's treatment of visual culture, gender, and identity, presenting similar dynamics in another African diasporic community and depicting even more autonomous female characters. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 SAM VASQUEZ In Her Own Image...
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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 1. Still from the video Grace and Mercy 566 by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 3. Still from the music video for “Jihadageddon,” released 2018. Image courtesy of Laylatul Qadr.
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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 4. Devouring Becky by Laylatul Qadr. Digital collage. Image courtesy of Qadr and the Muslims, 2018.
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 80–83.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Claudia Ferreira; Adriana Medeiros Images from the 2015 Marchof BlackWomen in Brasilia The following mini photo essay shows some of the most striking images captured during the 2015 March, as captured by photojournalists Claudia Ferreira and Adriana Medeiros. Photo by Adriana Medeiros. Firure 1...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 296–308.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to the global network fighting for women’s rights. The IWTC deliberately used images and drawings for accessibility, promoting the main takeaways of the conference to a wider audience (Walker 2004 , 93). Beyond illustrating the core ideas, the pamphlet also provides a view of contemporaneous reactions...
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Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 1. Perceived Prettiness with “Looks Hispanic” Ratio Note : The images in figures 1–4 are taken from these sources: Before and After: American Beauté, vol. 2 (Freehold, N.J.: Dennis Bernard); Family Album III (Auburn, Mass.: Worcester Reading Co.); Family Images, vol. 2 (Auburn
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Published: 01 October 2022
Figure 11. Three images from the series How to preserve dead flowers . They all share the same title: (untitled) how to preserve dead flowers , inkjet pigment print on transparency film, 36 × 24 in, 2018. Courtesy of Amanda Russhell Wallace.
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 26–52.
Published: 01 September 2015
... with interpreting the controversy surrounding From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried , controversy that focuses on the question whether Weems is ethically wrong to show, in her series, daguerreotype images of enslaved and arguably humiliated women, images that Weems rephotographs and re-presents, drastically...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 94–120.
Published: 01 June 2016
... in Salvador, the prevailing image of black women, particularly those who live in poor neighborhoods, is that they lack the knowledge and political sophistication needed to organize mass social movements. This article seeks to undermine this image by exploring how black women have come to radicalize local...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 169–195.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Luz Calvo Abstract Inspired by the Chicana feminist artist Alma López’s Our Lady (1999), this essay explores Chicana cultural and psychic investments in representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. As an image of the suffering mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe is omnipresent in Mexican-American visual...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 205–210.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Ayanah Moor Abstract Images of women surrounding male rap stars in music videos are as common as the jewel-encrusted subject matter of today's rap lyrics. Females are seen in packs hovering around male rap stars, playing the part of enthusiastic cheerleader or die-hard groupie. Rap music videos...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 293–321.
Published: 01 September 2008
... pornographic imagery into the mainstream. Nowhere is this situation more evident than with women in popular music whose images have become increasingly hyper-sexualized. Through various narratives circling women in music, this essay explores how the 1996 Telecommunications Act has made pornographic images...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 October 2021
... elaborates briefly on three interconnected ideas: the construction of Islam as a unified religious and cultural mindset, its fetishistic character, and its enigmatic image of the woman to reflect on how Islam is presented as the antonym of Western civilization. mmoallem@berkeley.edu Copyright © 2021...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to recover their own images. The authors use the methodologies of Black/Girlhood Imaginary to analyze three case studies beginning with Judy Winslow’s unexplained disappearance from the popular 1990s sitcom Family Matters . The authors then move into a literary analysis of a poem written by Paradise...
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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
..., they carry both the silenced histories of racial and sexual exploitation and the appeal of hyper-sexualized and exoticized stereotypes. I am also interested in discussing how these writings/writers articulate notions and images connected to discourses of mestiçagem in order to rewrite black women's bodies...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 78–102.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Lia T. Bascomb Abstract The image of black queens has a rich legacy within African diasporic discourse. This article examines Barbadian singer Alison Hinds's performance as Soca Queen . Hinds's prolific career spans decades. Her fans named her the Queen of Soca and she took on the designation...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... images of women from the global south. It also examines the figure of the pan-Arab feminist Huda Shaarawi, who in 1919 organized the largest women's anti-British demonstration, and became in 1935 the vice president of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, and in 1945...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., and Cisneros’s attention to the particular concerns faced by impoverished females of color makes the text intersectional. The two tales with which Cisneros most explicitly engages are “Cinderella” and “Rapunzel,” and the two central images in her collection are shoes and windows. The House on Mango Street also...
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