... included Josephine Baker, Carmen Miranda, and Katherine Dunham. It analyzes how Cosme employed a range of identity maneuvers that allowed her to challenge depictions of African culture as primitive, and to address the history and legacies of African enslavement. Finally, the article explores the ways...

... desires for, respectively, cosmopolitan and transnational belonging, while also illuminating the limitations of national attachments. The first section of the essay examines in "Sexy" the white American female protagonist Miranda's desires for cosmopolitan belonging, which is defined by transnational...

... army of private “contractors” (mercenaries) bristling with weapons, we need an analytics of debt more than ever. We need to understand debt and the carceral imaginary, as Miranda Joseph suggests in Debt to Society (2014) and Angela Davis points out in Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003). Debt constructs...

... feminism is defined by white women but from their own various Indigenous traditions of honoring women’s power, gender diversity, and gender balance: traditions that have often been repressed by colonialism but are being revitalized with great care (Caffrey 2000 ; Miranda 2010 ). One key concept...

... (Garcia and Souza, 2010; Lopes and Werneck 2009; Miranda-Ribeiro et al. 2010; Pinho et al. 2002; Taquette 2009); however, research in this area remains markedly underdeveloped. In 2004, the Brazilian Ministry of Health published an epidemiological bulletin that highlighted the growth of the HIV...

... University Press . Wynter Sylvia . 1990 . “ Beyond Miranda’s Meanings: Unsilencing the ‘Demonic Ground’ of Caliban’s ‘Woman.’ ” In Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature , edited by Davies Carole Boyce and Fido Elaine Savory , 355 – 70 . Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press...

.... Fricker,Miranda. 2007. EpistemiIcnjusticeP: owearndtheEthicsofKnowin9N. ewYork: Oxford UniversityPress. Gadsby, Meredith. 2006. Suckin9Salt:CaribbeaWnomenWritersM, i9ration,andSurvival. Columbia: Universityof Missouri Press. Hall, Stuart. 1996.StuartHall:CriticaDl ialo9ueisn CulturalStudies.London...

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... States." Slavery& Abolition4, no. 1: 56-63. Fricker, Miranda. 2007. EpistemicInjustice:Powerand the EthicsofKnowing.New York: Oxford. Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. 2013. Commentary. Harriet Tubman: A Legacy ofResistance (symposium). March 8-9. Albany, NY. Harris, Duchess. 1999. "'All ofWho I Am in the Same...

... Tempesltearned who to curse his master Prospero with the master's language, but also against the terms of discourse imposed by Miranda, Prospero's daughter. While Curiel's maroonagrefers to rationalities oflife relatively outside ofWestern regimes of power and knowledge, Wynter's "demonic grounds" denote...

... 18,2015in Luanda. WORKS CITED Alison,Miranda. 2002. WomenasAgentsofPoliticaVl iolenceG:enderinSgecurity, UniversityofWarwick, UK:Department of Politicsand International Studies. Allman,Jean. 1994."MakingMothers: Missionaries, Medical Officers,and Women's Work in ColonialAsante, 1924-1945."HistoryWorkshopno...

.... NOTES r. I would like to thank the Meridianstaff, the two anonymous readers of my article, Miranda Outman-Kramer, Jenny Sharpe, and Emily Russell for their invaluable help with this essay. 2. Peter Manuel cites an opinion piece in TheGuardian(Manuel 2000, 334). 3. "The 1970smade chutney ready for soca...

..., Habib and Raina (1989: 51-66). 9. In an essay Madhu Kishwar divides the students at Miranda House, a women's college affiliated with Delhi University, into three categories: "the westernized Mirandians who come from elite schools, the science types, and the Hindi-speaking bhenjis" (Kishwar 1995: 10...