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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
... heard, like their biological mothers. Through a reconceptualization of Gayle Rubin's theory of patriarchal exchange, among other methodologies, my discussion of The Language of Blood from a feminist perspective brings together literary analysis, sociological approaches, and theories of ethnicity...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 218–242.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in academic writing. This article explores how teaching language/dialect difference in majority white school settings, using contrastive-analysis techniques such as code switching may have highly negative effects on African American Language (AAL) speakers. Code-switching maintains that AAL and other “non...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 321–322.
Published: 01 October 2020
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 264–266.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Kwame Dixon Place, Language, and Identity in Afro—Costa Rican Literature . By Dorothy E. Mosby . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2003 . xiii, 264 pp. Cloth, $34.95 . Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 Place,Languagea, nd Identityin Afro-CostaRicanLiterature.By...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 5. Flyer for 46 Amboy Street clinic in four languages, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, circa 1916. Margaret Sanger Papers, SSC.
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 334–349.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and binding—or, to use the language of A Mercy , the lashing—that deforms the relationship between mothers and daughters and produces an archive of intergenerational mourning that struggles to be transmitted and deciphered. This essay seeks to understand how language and affective bonds influence...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 71–100.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Silvia Schultermandl Abstract In Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman (1997), the Korean American protagonist reconciles with her Korean heritage through the act of spreading her mother's ashes. This essay looks at Keller's use of a “language of the body” that protests against rape and other forms...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... 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...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Brooke Lober Abstract In this interview, the writer, activist, and well-known woman of color feminist and participant in grassroots left movements Aurora Levins Morales explores the action and language of participatory social change, considered through the lens of her social location and experience...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 482–507.
Published: 01 October 2019
... internal meetings as a diverse, multigenerational group open to learning from others. Second, a feminist approach requires that the authors center mothers’ words through the critical practice of ensuring shared Arabic language and local knowledge in the research process. The authors offer excerpts...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Amina Jamal Abstract In many Muslim-majority societies, including Pakistan, liberal progressive subjects who espouse feminism and gender equality do so through the language of universal human rights and political secularism. This brings them into conflict not only with anti-secular rightwing...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 235–258.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in India, in 2012. With a focus on both the ideological and practical aspects of running what Hembrom calls a “dependie” initiative, this interview explores adivaani’s—and Hembrom’s—journey in creating an Indigenous archive; the politics of knowledge production, language, and translation...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 183–205.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and history. Condé’s novel shows that while controlled métissage is attempted through the violation of the black and white breasts, creolization is undercutting this project, allowing the breast agency as well as space for rebellion. While the breast cannot be represented through the colonizer’s language...
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Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 5. SOCIALES por Sonia Ellis, El Diario La Prensa . Photocopy of article dated January 24, 1965. The bottom of the page, under the heading “ACTIVITIES OF SPANISH-AMERICAN TENANTS,” provides a translation of the article. NYCHA collected articles from the Spanish- language paper to track any
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 295–320.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., and instructors in colleges and universities in the United States face language discrimination because they speak English as a second language or with a foreign accent (Wei, Wang, and Ku 2012 ). Although research has provided evidence that Faculty of Color in the United States face isolation and discrimination...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 77–91.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the language hierarchies that encoded identity and perception of the other(s), even ones that almost erased what and who he was. Yetthis is not to defend or claim some pure linguistic genealogy. My father speaks Tosian, the rather guttural southern dialect of Cantonese peasants. My mother speaks the Cantonese...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 130–152.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of the values that sustained white society to the detriment of Black society. Where white society labelled everything black (and by extension Black) as degenerate and base, Black Consciousness emphasized positive images of Blackness (and blackness). In the English language particularly "black" is used almost...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and identity construction in his studies of the way that Nuyoricans restore the past according to present needs, maintaining a deeper sense of Puerto Rican identity in the barrio than relatives on the island. In a chapter essay, "Broken English Memories: Languages of the Trans-Colony," he recounts how Puerto...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 73–103.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., fauna, and the language of natural history: "At first, Aves, Hexapoda, Gastropoda, and Reptilia burrowed instinctively into nooks and crevices. They realized eventually that they had no cause to hide. Mala permitted them to roam boldly and to multiply at leisure throughout her property" (Mootoo 1996...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 150–176.
Published: 01 March 2006
... have to wrestle with feelings of guilt for betrayal of my people. I was ready then to write critically about my past. During 1975-76 I began writing my novel Lina:APortraitofa DamascenGeirlin Arabic, a language that I had not used for ten years. The exercise did not prove to be difficult. It was like I...
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