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The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Struggle against Impunity in Argentina
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 19–41.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Rita Arditti ESSAY The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Struggle against Impunity in Argentina RITA ARDITTI Wemust notforgetor besilent.Ourduty isto keepthe memory,to keep talkingtirelesslyaboutthehorrorosftheArgentingeenocideW. ewillnot letany episodei,nsignijicanatsit may seem,go...
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Contemporarity: Sufficiency in a Radical African Feminist Life
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 415–431.
Published: 01 November 2018
... for as long as I came to feminist consciousness. Take, for example, the vexatious persistence and escalation of hetero-impunity and violation against mainly females of all ages. For many years in my activist writing and engagement with this expression of patriarchal supremacy, I felt the injustice of sexual...
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Structural Trauma
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of their lands through genocidal violence, spatial containment, and blood quantum rules. Containment and elimination are thus not mutually exclusive, even in the logic of containment’s negative uses of force as noncontainment and impunity for violence. This is illustrated in the staggering rates of sexual...
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Meridians Roundtable on Peace
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 92–111.
Published: 01 September 2001
... in Argentina during the 1976-1983 dictatorship (and that remain unpunished), and the emergence of a whole societal structure of impunity that legitimizes injustice. This culture of impunity, and let me briefly define impunity here as the "impossibility to bring the perpetrators of human rights abuses...
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Insurgent Memories of Armed Struggle: Self-Representation by Female Ex-combatants in Peru
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 165–189.
Published: 01 April 2025
... crime by law, there was generalized silence, complicity, and impunity for this abuse: “The order has been given, we have got to waste this chola ” (Stern 1998 : 361). As suggested by Elizabeth Jelin ( 2003 : 5), the labors of memory imply an active and constant process through which...
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Editor’s Introduction
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): v–viii.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the Valentine's Day 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, did not simply spring up out of fallow ground. Rather, it was rooted in and nourished by the largely youth-led #HandsUpDontShoot and #SayHerName movements' intersectional understanding of the political economy of police brutality and impunity...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2020
... days-long rampage of white racial violence in Brooks County, Georgia (Bright 2017 ). During the final days of May 1918, mobs of White men identified, hunted, kidnapped, murdered, and lynched over a dozen Black men with impunity, including Mary Turner’s husband, Hayes. When Mary Turner—who was eight...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., and resistant Black women (people) with impunity, even if the means was death (Wells 1969; Thompson-Miller and Feagin 2014 ; Wormser 2003 ; Woodward 1974 ). It is this historic reality that has established the unyielding foundation for policing Black bodies and “managing” racial resistance today...
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“Outing History:”: Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 81–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
... or, worse, deception; to ugly ballot measures that ask the electorate to deny basic rights to many ofits citizens; to vote for bigotry. But because there is a Blanche Wiesen Cook, such denials, deceptions, and ugliness cannot be continued with impunity. In her groundbreaking essays as well as her...
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Becoming Postcolonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., patriarchal violation-embedded in the maintenance of social status laws that allowed sexual impunity and misogynist practices in the name of cultural preservation--came under uncompromising challenge by women of all classes and social locations. Women demanded the amendment of clauses in the Zimbabwean...
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Transnational Feminist Approaches to Anti-Muslim Racism
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., imagined as a people especially given to rationality and possessing a deep commitment to democracy and gender equality that must be protected. As it travels, anti-Muslim racism hitches a ride on local conflicts, enabling violence to be directed at Muslim communities with impunity in the name, for instance...
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Couwenbergh’s The Rape of the Negress : Visual Violence, Theological Erasure, and Black Feminist Fugitivity
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 146–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... As Amanda Pipkin ( 2013 : 94n48) describes, even an “optimistic analysis of [this] painting of three young white men raping a [B]lack woman is that it served to critique the debauchery of student life and the existing social and racial hierarchies where men could commit such crimes with impunity...
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Editor’s Introduction
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 October 2023
... anti-Blackness in order to scapegoat sub-Saharan (im)migrants for his regime’s failed economic policies. This has had deadly consequences for vulnerable populations that have been targeted by vigilantes with impunity (NPR 2023 ). Works Cited Alvarez Priscilla . 2023 . “ Biden...
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El mejor regalo es ser mujer y sobre todo mujer negra
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 7–15.
Published: 01 September 2018
... impune el violador pedófilo y el daño hecho a esa criatura por vida. Se han dado casos tan emblemáticos como en la provincia de Dajabón a principios del año 2014, en que una joven de piel oscura fue encontrada en unos matorrales, violada y asesinada. El médico legista que levantó el cadáver procedió...
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Contesting Militarized Violence in “Northeast India”: Women Poets against Conflict
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 April 2021
... space”? (Iralu 2006 : 1). The poems reveal how the people are now forced to confront the enemy from without and within. Naga brothers have both ingested and reproduced the violence of the sovereign state to further their own pursuit of sovereign Naga power with impunity in mirroring acts of terror...
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Las Krudas, Spatial Practice, and the Performance of Diaspora
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 130–143.
Published: 01 September 2008
... communities," consequently, "not everyone partakes in the privileges of membership [in] the diasporic community with impunity" (Brown 2005, 42). Exploring the Space of Sound Over the course of the last half-century, a growing body of work within anthropology has sought to theorize the relationship between...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2020
... forcibly retired; racist sports team mascots and names were finally acknowledged as such; and the stories of other Black people who have been recently murdered with impunity came to the fore. We learned that twenty-three-year-old massage therapist Elijah McClain died of cardiac arrest in August 2019...
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The 1938 Mississippi Health Project
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 393–415.
Published: 01 March 2018
... mouth fora family of three, and as much as $18 or $20 for a family of nine.) Deduction is also made of any other debt -perhaps an extra cash loan, with interest, which may legally be charged In Mississippi at 20%, but may with impunity be even 101%; for the owner alone has records of these transactions...
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Dissidence, Creativity, and Embargo Art in Nuha Al-Radi's Baghdad Diaries
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the last will and testament of an Iraqi woman torn between her love for a beloved country, the ambivalence of exile in Beirut, and her opposition to the diplomatic impunity of the U.S.-led coalition forces, who, she concluded, were "worried about security, not for the poor Iraqis, but for themselves...
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Solidarity across Borders: An Interview with Artist Andrea Arroyo
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2013
... found out. Four hundred women, it's a lot of women and it's not even the real number; we don't really know how many women have disappeared. We don't really know the extent of the tragedy; we don't know the costs. Wejust know in general that it's violence, corruption, impunity. I also realized...
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