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Afro-Latin American Feminisms at the Cutting Edge of Emerging Political-Epistemic Movements
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2016
... feminism, simply asserting it supposedly doesnot exist(esono existe).The student fought against this expression of academic racism, finished her proposed thesis, and now is a leading voice in a rising tide ofBlack and Indigenous feminist theory and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the very...
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Afro-Latin American Women Writers and the Historical Complexities of Reproducing Race
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Karen Y. Morrison Abstract This essay describes the common concerns about the social reproduction of race found in the works of pioneering Afro-Latin American writers Maria de Fermina Reis, Irma Pedroso, Carolina Maria de Jesus and Daisy Rubiera Castillo. Each was the first African-descended woman...
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Translating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organizing on Local Feminist Discourses and Practices in Latin America
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 29–67.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Sonia E. Alvarez Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 ESSAYS Translatingthe Global Effects of Transnational Organizing on Local Feminist Discourses and Practices in Latin America SONIA E. ALVAREZ International activism has been a defining feature of both first- and second-wave...
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Motherwork, Daughterwork: Exploring Activist Mothering within the Latin American Diaspora in Sweden
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Paulina de los Reyes; Diana Mulinari Abstract This article explores how young women born in Sweden, or arriving in Sweden as toddlers, who belong to the Latin American diaspora give meaning to and act on their experiences of being the daughters of migrant mothers, whose political activism shapes...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 46–55.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ochy Curiel; Manuela Borzone; Alexander Ponomareff Abstract This article rethinks the challenges of radical politics within a global neoliberal context by rekindling conversations about the history of Afro-Latin American women's movements. The article explores the current economic crisis and its...
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Towards a Black Feminist Model of Black Atlantic Liberation: Remembering Beatriz Nascimento
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 September 2016
... should be considered a key figure in the radical Black tradition in the Americas. Not only did her ground-breaking theorizations of the Black Atlantic re-imagine this important concept from a radical, Black, female, Latin American perspective, but the general lack of knowledge of her theoretical...
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In Her Own Image: Literary and Visual Representations of Girlhood in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
Published: 01 March 2014
... like Latin America. However, building on relatively recent attempts to locate Morrison in broader transnational spaces, in this discussion, I propose closely examining a text from another Anglophone, African diasporic context, which utilizes many of the strategies evident in Bluest —Kincaid's Annie...
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Traveling Words: A Reflection on “Rotundamente negra” and Afro-Descendant Women's Cultural Politics
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Dorothy E. Mosby Abstract This paper is both a personal reflection and critical analysis of the circulation of the poem “Rotundamente negra” by Afro-Costa Rican poet and cultural activist Shirley Campbell among Afro-descendant women in Latin America. As I heard various recitations...
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Eusebia Cosme and Black Womanhood on the Transatlantic Stage
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in which various audiences—African American, white American, white Latin American, and Afro-Caribbean—translated her performances of blackness. Cosme’s success stemmed from her ability to construct a nuanced representation of blackness within both Cuban and Afro-diasporic perspective. Copyright © 2017...
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March against Racism and Violence and in Favor of Living Well ( bem viver) , Brasilia 2015 : National Black Women’s March November 18
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 513–521.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Claudia Ferreira; Adriana Medeiros Abstract These three brief pieces formed part of a two-part special issue (vol. 4, nos. 1 and 2, 2016) on Afro-Descendant Feminisms in Latin America. The unprecedented nationwide mobilizational process that culminated in the first-ever Marcha das Mulheres Negras...
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Afro-Latina Disidentification and Bridging: Lourdes Casal’s Critical Race Theory
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 123–154.
Published: 01 April 2022
...-definition as a “radicalized” social scientist who sheds light on academic feminism’s blindspots and who applauds the revolutionary recognition of Cuban culture as “Latin-African.” Casal forges decolonial tools for dismantling the master’s house by adapting feminist rhetorical strategies of self-inscription...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 249–252.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Ginetta E. B. Candelario Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. In the mid-1990s a small group of feminist faculty from women’s studies, Latin American studies, and Afro...
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Translations across Black Feminist Diasporas
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): v–ix.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of English-speaking Black women" within the global project ofBlack feminist studies, Afro-Latin American women's voices have been "muted," despite the fact that they "have made significant theoretical and philosophical interventions that could potentially change the way that we think about gendered racial...
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Promoting Feminist Amefricanidade : Bridging Black Feminist Cultures and Politics in the Americas
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): v–xi.
Published: 01 June 2016
... epistemology that enhances the visibility of Afro-decendant feminisms in Latin America, "thinks from within" those decolonial histories of struggle, and pursues "an interconnected approach to racism, colonialism, imperialism and its effects" (Cardoso 2014, 969-970). In furthering this political-epistemic...
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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro—Costa Rican Literature
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 264–266.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Kwame Dixon Place,Languagea, nd Identityin Afro-CostaRicanLiterature.By Dorothy E. Mosby. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xiii, 264 pp .Cloth, $34.95. Afro-Hispanic literary productions and works that configure or address the image of Afro-Latin people within narrative texts...
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The Unforgetting of Claribel Alegría: Reckoning with Capitalist Catastrophe in El Salvador
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 360–383.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Ericka . 2012 . Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Boland Osegueda Roy . 2005 . “ The Central American Novel .” In The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel , edited by Kristal Efrain , 162 – 80...
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‘Vem Marchar com a Gente’/Come March with Us
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 70–75.
Published: 01 June 2016
...-descendant Feminisms in Latin America. Though many Black Brazilian feminist and women's movement activists and organizations form part of national networks such as the Articula{tiodeOrganiza{odeesMulhereNs egras(Articulation ofBlack Women's Organizations), the F6rumdeMulhereNsegras(Black Women's Forum...
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Born in Cuba, Made in the Americas: The Inter-American Commission of Women / Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 348–359.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Sheilena M. Downey In the aftermath of the War of the Pacific, in 1889 the United States hosted delegates from seventeen Latin American countries in Washington, DC at the First International Conference of American States (also known as the first Pan-American Conference), ostensibly as part...
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About the Contributors
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 183–184.
Published: 01 March 2005
... surrealistic visions. The Mexican culture, religion, and strong family values are great influences on her perspective as an artist. Her use of vibrant colors relates to the richness of the Latin culture. HELENA GRICE is Lecturer in American and British Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK...
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Afrodescendant Women: A Race and Gender Intersectional Spiderweb
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 56–70.
Published: 01 September 2016
... on-were kept on the periphery of the activities offeminist organizations. As feminists, many ofus participated in the creation of the ReddeMujeresAftocaribeiiyasAftolatinoamericanas(Network of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Women)-which now also includes 'of the DiasporaRMAAD) but the subject...
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