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... know Clifton's work well also note key elements of her poetic voice in which she honors the everyday mysticism of African American experience, a firm claim to agency and creativity in the face of terror, and an insistence on telling the truths of history—the joyful truths as well as the hidden...

... calls a “rebel consciousness” through representations of female rebels who refuse to “know duh place.” Cliff's rebel women combat and resist traditional representations of womanhood, patriarchy, colonial culture, and homophobia. The genealogy of the “fighting spirit” of Caribbean women is registered...

... 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...

... millennial women. The interviews centered the thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and ideologies of these millennials about their social media use in relation to themes of language, race, culture, identity, and health. Black millennial women come to know their experiences on- and off-line as real because...

.... Miss learning the steps. Miss holding Eric Miller's handI didn't tell her about Eric. "Okay Anae,but drink water all day," she said. When she calls me Anae,I know she means it. In the gym, my face began to burn, and my stomach was full of the water I had promised my Mom. I felt weak and needed...

... vigils of solidarity with the victims from around the world. We have lived through war. We have been greatly helped in our recovery by the United States' representatives, who talked against revenge and promoted reconciliation as essential to achieve a future with true peace and democracy. We know what...

... socially conscious: the legacy, for me, of having my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, my parents, my siblings, all interned in a concentration camp during World War II. And then having that as a reference point for most Japanese Americans, you know, when they first meet each other. [For] my...

... students, "Oh you don't know who these people are but I know who they are," so there is a context which is not there in the second edition. Was that a conscious choice? MEENA ALEXANDER: Yes,yes. I think your student put it rather well; I said to him, "Why do you think I left out that first bit...

... one of these women would have been the next Frida Kahlo or a great visionary. Wewill never know because their lives were cut short. In this way,Arroyo renders visible and highlights the humanity of the 400 women who have died in the border town. Feminist analysis has always valued the remembering...

... and sitting in a circle, we would talk about the different things we had heard at auditions: "Ay, at that audition today, you know what they told me? To be more spicy!" "What?" We would sit and talk and complain, and we started thinking that we should write about this. The stories we were reading were very...

... you the world would spill and lose itself. it’s more like that. they say god moved over the face of the deep, but in the deep there we already were. already pulsing already pulled by moon, relevant to us whether or not it was lit by sun. they fear the depth of the ocean rightly. we know what...

... and one of our most popular issues, "Representin': Women, Hip-Hop, and Popular Music," and I know her to be not only an excellent scholar but an efficient, organized, and excellent editor. And I have not been disappointed. The papers have been groundbreaking as they add new dimensions and new ways...

... in our humble firehouse studios. Wangari Maathai: It's wonderful to be here. Thank you very much for having me. Amy Goodman: I know you're heading back to Kenya tonight. Can you go back to the moment when you heard that you had won the Nobel Peace Prize? Where were you? Wangari Maathai: I was on my way...

... fear for the rest of us. first, please god, let it be a mistake, the pilot’s heart failed, the plane’s engine died. then please god, let it be a nightmare, wake me now. please god, after the second plane, please, don’t let it be anyone who looks like my brothers. i do not know how bad...

..., the plane's engine died. then please god, let it be a nightmare, wake me now. please god, after the second plane, please, don't let it be anyone who looks like my brothers. i do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. i have never been so hungry that i willed hunger i have never been so angry...

... a taste of her metallic wit flashing like silver starlight every now and again if she don't like you she will give you nothin' but raised hand and back turned attitude if you're wise you'll escape the eyes that rapier glare more serrated than words if you're smart you'll know better than to get...

...Angela Davis Tributeto JuneJordan andOtherRs ecentlDy eparted ANGELA DAVIS TributteoJuneJordan July15, 2002 Reprinted.froSmojourner No one who had the privilege of knowing June Jordan-a poet reading her work, a political agitator delivering a speech full of rage, a teacher conveying the passion...

... of age colonized knowing I wasn't meant to survive I screamed knowing the power of the erotics I screamed using the erotics as power I screamed out of my passion I screamed out loud words that resonated the sound of a hammer slamming on a nail going through flesh screeches shrieks hollers screams another...

.... The class/patriarchal system needs some divine power, hidden behind the clouds, to oppress women and men, and especially women. So young women are affected by that. When I turn on television here, I see the media are becoming religious. And sometimes they call it going back to spirituality, you know...

... Western name, I thought I'd like to have it, so I told my friends at school that I was going to change my name to Diana and they should call me that from now on. "But you don't look like a Diana," Roberta told me. "What do I look like then?" "I don't know. Like a Kadeeja, I guess." My father is a mechanic...