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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Mina Das becomes central to the middle-class, postcolonial, Indian malesubject Mr. Kapasi's desire for transnational mobility and capital, which began to define an emerging transnational class oflndian consumer citizens in the late 1970sand 1980s. Ifin "Sexy" Madhuri Dixit's phantasmatic beauty seems...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 51–68.
Published: 01 December 2020
... progressive Black dissidents in the law courts in Uganda, has to leave his country with his wife, Kinnu, and their five-year-old daughter, Mina, as a result of the edict. He also has to leave his best friend, Okelo, a “Black African.” After Jay gives an interview to the BBC, during the course of which he says...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 187–203.
Published: 01 September 2000
... in 1972, following Idi Amin's edict to expel all "Asians" from the country. Jay Loha, a barrister who has a reputation for defending progressive black dissidents in the law courts in Uganda, has to leave his country with his wife, Kinnu, and their five-year-old daughter, Mina, as a result of the edict. He...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 63–93.
Published: 01 April 2019
... unravels the vicissitudes of racialization and nationalism by highlighting the conflicting performances of Chinese bicultural femininity enacted by Long Tack Sam’s daughters: Fleming’s grandmother, Mina, and great aunt, Poldi (named after her Austrian mother, Long’s wife). Resisting the discourses...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 53–64.
Published: 01 March 2001
... their hair and listening to music. I hate dancing in front of all those people. My boy cousins are more fun, but I'm not supposed to play with them anymore because I am getting too old. Baba sometimes especially likes me because I'm his only daughter. (Mina and Monia are from Ma's first husband.) He used...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 118–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... (GAUV)and of the Cultural House Chontaduroinvited black women from different cities in the country to discuss new avenues to confront shared forms of racism and sexism in the contemporary moment. Respondents to this call included a number of prominent activists-intellectuals: Francia Marquez Mina...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 84–93.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., oceanlike, sieving searches nailing dreams quilombo-gathering3 hopes in the darkness of the night. NOTES 1. Adao Ventura (1946-2004) was a Black Brazilian poet, born in Minas Gerais, also the birthplace ofConcei~ao Evaristo. A lawyer by profession, Ventura's poetic lyricism centers the socio-politic issues...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 70–75.
Published: 01 June 2016
... territory QuilomboCarrapatos da Tabatinga in the state of Minas Gerais, delivering an impassioned speech during the first-ever national MarchadasMulhereNs egrascontrao Racismoea ViolenciaepeloBemViver (Black Women's March against Racism and Violence and for Living Well, hereafter the Marcha),held...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 508–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... photograph of Dona Tiana (Sebastiana Geralda Ribeiro da Silva), a grassroots activist from the historically Black territory Quilombo Carrapatos da Tabatinga in the state of Minas Gerais, delivering an impassioned speech during the first-ever national Marcha das Mulheres Negras contra o Racismo e...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of them had gathered around a warm fire and sang along to the beat of los tambores , Carlota and Fermina laid nearby staring up at the moon and the stars; this is how they recharged. “What’s on your mind, Mina?” There was silence for a moment. “I wish that we find a boat soon at one...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 282–303.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... Accessed February 27 , 2019 . http://www.aiwc.org.in/ . Edwards Louise , and Roces Mina , eds. 2010 . Women’s Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism . New York : Routledge . Estrada-Claudio Sylvia , and Santos Aida . 2005 . “ The Women’s Movement(s...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 30–49.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the disease, the program was fully implemented only in the state of Minas Gerais, although there have been sparse initiatives promoting the program elsewhere in the country. Ten percent of the Brazilian population is affected by this disease, mainly Afro-Brazilians and their descendents, so the problem...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 September 2016
... records the memories of quilomboladescendants through ethnography and archival research while also geographically mapping these spaces. She conducted her most substantive empirical research on three remaining quilombocommunities (comunidadersemanescentdesequilombosi)n the state of Minas Gerais in the mid...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 25–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
... History 81 , nos. 1–4 : 89 – 104 . Perkins Linda M. 1997 . “ The African American Female Elite: The Early History of African American Women in the Seven Sister Colleges, 1880–1960 .” Harvard Educational Review 67 , no. 4 : 718 – 56 . Phillips Ellis L. , Kerr Mina...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 435–463.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of Minas Gerais and her adulthood in the city. She details conforming to the expectations of women of her generation to be of service and speaks about the agonizing deaths of several children, her bout with tuberculosis, and her range of emotions as a homemaker. Iris ruminates on her hardships and missed...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
... for his family. (Jesus 1986, 58) During Carolina's youth, the specter of slavery still lingered in the rural community of Sacramento, in the state of Minas Gerais in central Brazil, where her family remained close to the land of their former masters. The surviving, last generation of former slaves, like...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 66–99.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Publishers. Edwards, Louise. 2000. "Women in the People's Republic of China: New Challenges to the Grand Gender Narrative." In Womenin Asia:Tradition, Modernity, and Globalisation,edited by Louise Edwards and Mina Races. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Feng. 2006. Personal Interview. April 30...
